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.MENTAL  TO  AN  ACT  ENTITLED  "AN  ACT  TO  INCORPORATE 
•ITY  OF  OARROLLTON,"   APPROVED  MARCH   SEVENTEENTH, 
HUNDRED  AND  FIFTY-NINE. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives 

i'  Louisiana,  in  General  Assembly  convened,  That  all  taxes 
■  Mayor  and  Council  of  the   city  of  CarroUton,  accord- 
iall  be  due  and  payable  in  the  office  of  the  collector  of 
sain   -ity,  tVi  in  the  first  of  January   in  each  year,  and  the  said  city 
special  lien  and    privilege  on    all    property  assessed,  to 
ivnient  of  the  taxes,  with  the  interest  and  costs  due,  to 
bi  pi  m.  by  preference  before  any  mortgage   or   claim  whatever  on 
id  voperty,  from   the  moment    of   recording   the  tax  bill  in  the 
lice  of  the  parish  of  Jefferson.      When  the   controlled 
tax  l>i':  my  year  have  been  placed  in  the  city  collector's  hands, 

he  -  notice  in  the  official  journal  of  said    city,  notify  the  tax 

pay<  he\  are  due   and  payable   in  his  office,  and   if  not  paid, 

will  be  recorded  on  the   first  Monday  in   May  ensuing,  at  the  costs 
of  delinquents.     On  the  first   Monday  in  May  of  each  year  the  col- 
aiid  over  (<>  Recorder   of  Mortgages  for  the  parish  of 
a  all  unpaid  bills  for  taxes  of  the   previous  year,  to  be  re- 
corded, audit  shall  be  the    duty  of  the    Recorder  to    enter  them  in 
his  books    without  delay,  and  return    them   to    the  collector,  with  a 
(1,  and  his  cost    marked    on  each    bill.       The    recorded 
bi  tr  interest  at    the  rate   of  eight   per   cent,  per  annum 
trow  the    lay  they  were    due,  and  the    collector  shall  collect  the  m- 
•    I        sts  from    the  tax  payer.        When    the    said     Mayor  ami 
•uncilfind  it  necessary  to  sue  delinquent  tax  payers,  or  to  sue  for 
unpaid  bills  for  public  works,  the  collector   shall  file  the  bills  in  the 
jurisdiction,    and  the   justice   of   the  peace  or    cleric 
of  the  court, 'as  the  case    may   be,  shall,  by  an  advertisement  pub- 
lish) ifficial  journal  of  said  city,    cite  all  the  delinquents  to 
ap]                        i  twenty  days    from  the  first     insertion    of   said   adver- 
tise- answerto  the  demand  contained  in  the  bill  tiled.     No 

be  necessary,  lmt   the  bill  filed  shall    he   considered  a 

'the  advertisement  shall  be  considered  a  citation,  and 
ice  of  citation  shall  he  necessary.  The  advertisement 
tin  name  of  the  court,  the  names  of  all  defaulters,  and 
ait 1  from  each.      All  other  proceedings  in  the  suits 

ir  and  according    to  law       nd    each  defaulter  shall  pay 
twenl  uts  for  costs  of  the   cil         u  by  advertisement,  and  all 

'■      '  tin    suit,  toeetlier    with  the    fees  of  the    attorney  em- 
Council  to  attend  to  the  suits. 

it  further  enacted,  <!<■..  That  recording  and  noting  tax 

or  public    works   due    said    city,  the   Recorder  shall  be 

nty-tive  cents  for  each  bill  recorded,  and  no  more. 
collection,  by  the  officer  m  cuarge  oi  it. 

Si,.  3.     Beit  further  enacted,  etc.,  That  section  firs!  of  Baid  sup- 
plemental act,  approved  March  21,  18(56,  be  am<  nd<  d  ai   1  re-,  nacted 

to  read:  ^B^g»  i    i    i" 


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Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  <(■<-.,  That,  all  Sheriffs,  Notaries  and 
other  persons  are  forbidden  to  pass  or  execute  any  act  for  the  sale, 
transfer,  exchange  or  mortgage  of  any  real  estate  or  other  property 
ktuated  within  said  city,  unless  the  State  and  city  taxes  due  on  the 
•  same  be  first  paid,  to  be  shown  by  the  Collector's  receipt  or  certifi- 
cate to  that  purpose;  and  the  Sheriff,  Notary  or  other  person  vio- 
lating the  provisions  of  this  section  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof, 
be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  fifty  dollars  nor  more  than  two  hun- 
dred dollars  for  each  offense,  to  be  recovered  by  the  P  ate  for  the 
use  of  the  public  schools  of  said  citx ,  before  any  competent  tribunal. 
"Sec.  4.  Be  it  fuiiher  enacted,  &c,  That  the  Mayor,  councilmen 
and  officers  of  said  city  shall  continue  in  office  until  their  succes- 
sors have  been  elected  and  qualified  according  to  law. 
'  Sec,  5.  Be  it  further  enacted,  &C,  That  sections  sixteen  and  sev- 
enteen of  an  Act  entitled  "an  Act  to  incorporate  the  city  of  Car- 
rolltoh,  approved  March  seventeen,  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-nine, 
ami  all  other  laws  or  parts  of  laws  inconsistent  with  the  provisions 
of  this  Act.  l>e  and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  G.     Be    it  further  enacted,  dV.,  That  this  Act  shall  take  effect 
from  and  after  its  passage. 

(Signed)  J-  B.  EL  AM, 

Speaker  pro  tem.  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 
( Signed)  ALBERT  VOORHIES, 

Lieutenant-Governor  and  President  of  the  Senate. 
Approved  March  21,  1866. 

(Signed)  J.  MADISON  WELLS, 

Governor  of  the  State  of  Louisiana. 
A  true  copy: 

J.  H.  Hardy, 

Secretary  of  State. 


POlTCOn,  tne  COUector  H11H41  luucn     Bnmn 

journal   of  the   corporation,  or   by   posting    as  required  in   b< 

nl,  within  twenty  .lays,  notifying  such  owner  or  owners  that 
unit  ss  pa\  menl  is  made  within  thirty  days  fron  the  date  "f  the  first 
insertion  of  Buch    notice,  thai   the -aid  property    will  lie  proc 

i-t  in  the  same  manner    is  i-  prescribed    in  tin   foregoing 
tion  for  the  V  covery  of  taxes  due  said  corporation;  and  all 
advertising,  recording  or  otherwise  shaU   be  added  to  the  bill   for 
collection,  by  the  offie<  r  m  charge  of  it." 

:\.     Be  it  further  enacted,  etc.,    I  I  of  said 

plemental  act,  approved  March  21,  1  SCO,  1  led   I     In 


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*  No.  98.]  AN  ACT 

To  amend  an  Act  entitled  "  an  Act  to  Incorporate  the  city  "i  Carrollton,"  approved  March    17. 
1869,  ami  ilie  supplemental  act  tlurct>>.  approved  Marcli  21,  186C>. 

Section  1.  Be  it  enactedby  ///<■  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives 
of  the  State  of  Louisiana,  in  breheral  Assembly  convened,  That  sec- 
tion ten  of  said  act  of  incorporation  be  amended  and  re-enacted 
80  as  to  read: 

f"  Sec.  10.  Be\  it  further  enacted,  etc.  That  the  roads,  streets, 
levees,  wharves,  public  places  and  thoroughfares  in  said  city,  shall 
be  under  the  entire  control  of  said  mayor  and  council,  and  they 
shall  pass  such  ordinances  for  the  regulation  thereof  as  they  n i : i \ 
deem  expedient:  Provided,  That  no  ordinance  in  relation  to  thos< 
places  or  the  levees  shall  interfere  with  the  rights  of  the  public 
thereto  as  laid  down  in  the  Civil  Code  and  laws  of  this  State,  They 
are  hereby  vested  with  the  power  to  repair,  alter  or  enlarge  said 
levees;  and  if  necessary  for  the  safety  of  the  inhabitants,  to  make  a 
new  levee  in  front  of  :iu\  part  of  said  city,  in  such  places  ami 
manner  as  the  exigency  of  til"  case,  in  their  discretion,  may  require; 
and  six  of  the  conncihnen  concurring,  are  empowered  to  levy  ami 
collect  a  special  tax  on  the  real  estate  and  personal  property  in  said 
city  to  pay  all  expenses  and  costs  arising  therefrom;  they  are 
empowered  io  curl),  gutter,  grade,  pave,  shell,  or  plank  sidewalks, 
streets  and  public  thoroughfares,  and  charge  the  front  owners  on 
such  places  the  whole  costs  for  sidewalks,  including  the  curbs  and 
gutters,  and  one-third  of  the  whole  cost  for  streets;  and  they  ar< 
emp.  >\\i  red  to  make  wharves,  plant  tie  posts,  and  regulate  the  port 
of  said  city;  also,  to  cause  vacant  lots  to  be  fenced  and  tilled  up  t( 
the  gra  1'of  the  city,  at  the  expense  of  the  owners,  when  necessary. 

Sec.  2.  t?<'  it  furtlvr  fnact'-tl,  etc..  That  section  eighteen  of  said 
act  of  incorporation  be  amended  and  re-enacted  so  as  to  read: 

"Sec  is.  Be  it  further  enacted,  etc.,  That  whenever  the  owner 
of  any  property  in  front  of  which  paving  of  any  description  what- 
ever, Bide  walks,  banquettes  or  other  walks  shall  be  done  within  tin 
limits  of  said  corporation,  by  order  of  said  mayor  and  council,  oi 
whenever  the  owner  of  any  property  which  has  been  rilled  up  wit! 
earth,  or  enclosed  or  fenced  in,  by  order  of  said  mayor  and  council, 
shall  fail  to  pay  the  amount  for  which  said  property  may  be  liable. 
the  said  corporation  or  contractor  performing  the  work  shall  hav< 
a  special  lieu  and  privilege  upon  said  property,  to  secure  the  pay- 
ment i  if  the  amount  so  due,  with  eight  per  cut.  per  annum  interesl 
from  the  date  on  which  the  same  ought  to  have  been  paid,  to  h< 
paid  by  preference  over  am  mortgage  or  claim  whatever  upon  said 
property:  Provided,  Thai  such  privilege  shall  not  extend  beyond  th< 
period  of  six  months  from  the  completion  of  said  v/ovks,  unless  the 
hill  for  tile  same,  duly  certified  by  the  controller  and  surveyor  oi 
said  corporation,  has  been  recorded  in  the  offic<  of  the  recorder  of 
mortgages  of  the  pariah  of  Jefferson:  Provided  further,  Thai  in 
case  such  owner  shall  be  unknown,  or  reside  out  of  the  city  of  Car- 
roliton, the  collector  shall  insert  a  notice  three  times  in  the  official 
journal  of  the  corporation,  or  l>\  posting  ;is  required  in  section 
second,  within  twenty  days,  notifying  such  owner  or  owm  ra  that 
unh  -s  pa\  iii'iit  is  made  within  thirty  days  fron  the  date  of  the  first 
insertion  of  such    notice,  thai   the  said  property  will  lie  proceeded 

I  linst  in  the  same  manner  is  is  prescribed  in  the  foregoing  sec- 
tion tor  the  recover}  of  taxes  due  --aid  corporation:  and  all  costs  for 
advertising,  recording  or  otherwise  shall  be  add.  d  to  the  bill  for 
collection,  by  the  officer  in  charge  of  it." 

3.     Be  it  further  enacted,  etc.,  That  Bection  first  of  said  sup- 
plemental act,  approved  March  21,  1m',<;.  he  am.  ml.  d  acted 
to  read: 


"  Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Represt  ntatives 
of  the  State  of  Louisiana,  in  General  Assembly  convened,  That  all 
taxes  levied  by  the  mayor  and  council  of  the  city  of  Carrolltou 
according-  to  law,  shall  be  due  and  payable  in  the  office  of  the  col- 
lector of  said  cit^y  from  the  first  of  January  in  each  year,  and  the 
said  city  shall  have  a  special  lien  and  privilege  on  all  property 
assessed  to  secure  the  payment  of  the  taxes  with  the  interest  and 
cost  due,  to  be  paid  by  preference  before  any  mortgage  or  claim 
whatever  on  said  property,  from  the  moment  of  recording  the  tax 
bill  in  tin'  mortgage  office  of  the  parish  of  Jefferson.  When  the 
controlled  tax  bills  for  any  year  have  been  placed  in  the  city  collec- 
tor's hands,  he  shall,  by  notice  in  the  official  journal  of  said  city, 
notify  the  tax  payers  that  they  are  due  and  payable  in  his  office,  and 
if  not  paid  will  be  recorded  ou  the  first  Monday  in  July  ensuing,  at 
the  cost  of  delinquents.  On  the  first  Monday  in  July  of  each  year 
the  collector  shall  hand  over  to  the  recorder  of  mortgages,  for  the 
parish  of  Jefferson,  all  unpaid  bills  for  taxes  of  the  previous  year  to 
be  recorded;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  recorder  to  enter  them 
in  his  books  without  delay,  and  return  them  to  the  collector  with  a 
note  of  record  and  his  cost  marked  on  each  bill.  The  recorded 
bills  shall  bear  interest  at  the  rate  of  eight  per  cent,  per  annum 
from  tlie  day  they  were  due,  ami  the  collector  shall  collect  the  inter- 
est and  costs  from  the  tax  payer.  When  the  said  mayor  and  coun- 
cil find  it  necessary  to  sueAlehuquent  taxpayers,  or  to  sue  for  unpaid 
bills  for  public  works,  t  lie  collector  shall  rile  the  bills  in  the  COUTt 
having  jurisdiction,  and  the  justice  of  the  peace  or  the  clerk  of  the 
court,  as  the  case  may  be,  shall,  by  an  advertisement  published  in 
the  official  journal  of  said  city,  cite  ad  the  delinquents  to  appeal 
within  twenty  days  from  the  first  insertion  of  said  advertisement, 
and  answer  to  the  demand  contained  in  the  bill  tiled.  No  petition 
shall  be  necessary,  but  the  bill  filed  shall  be  considered  a  petition, 
and  the  advertisement  shall  be  considered  a  citation,  and  no  other 
service  of  citation  shall  be  necessary.  The  advertisement  shall  con- 
tain the  name  of  the  court,  the  names  of  all  defaulters,  and  tin 
amount  claimed  from  each.  All  other  proceedings  in  the  suits 
Shall  be  regular  and  according    to  law.  and  each  default)  r  shall  pay 

twenty-five  (cuts  for  cost  of  the  citation  by  advertisement,  and  all 
other  costs  in  the  suit,  together  with  the  fees  of  the  attorney  em- 
ploy* d  by  the  council  to  attend   to  the  suits." 

Signed)  DUNCAN  8.  CAGE, 

Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 
(Signed-  ALBERT  VOORHEES, 

Lieut-Governor  ami  President  of  the  Senat* . 
Approved  March  ii:;.  1867. 

Signed)  .T.  MADISON   WELLS, 

« iov.  rnor  of  tlie  State  of  Louisiana. 

A  true  copy: 

•  I.    H.    HaKI'Y. 

Secretary  of  Stat- 


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ANIMALS. 

Hogs  running  at  large  to  be  Bhot  and  Bold 11 

Dogs  without  muzzles  to  be  poisoned,  .when  and  how II 

<  'attic  horses  and  mules  to  !><•  branded,  when,  and  charge  for II 

Cattle,  horses  and  mules  taken  up,  when,  and  how  deall  with 12 

Hogs  proliibited  from  running  at  large 12 

Cattle  brand  to  be  provided 

Animals  of  Jefferson  Parish  permitted  to  graze,  on  condition,  etc  12 

(Joats  not  to  run  at  Large,  or  fastened  in  the  Btn  1 

Stray  animals  to  be  impounded 

Dead  animals  to  be  removed  by  owners  ol  property 

! ,1  animals  not  to  lie  thrown  in  the  Rtreet 52 

ASSESSORS. 

lluw   and  when   elected 49 

Dow  they  must  lie  opposed ■"» 

Duties  of 

Principal  to  make  book  of  plans,  and  continue  it 

ATTORNEY. 

I  low  and  When    elected 

To  sue  and  defend  for  the  city 13 

Po  examine  titles  and   contracts. *14 

To  institute  suits  for  breaches  of  ordinances 

To  keep  a  register  of  all  suits,  and  make  reports 1-1 

Compensation  for  collecting  money 51 

Is  the  legal  adviser  ol   the  Mayor.  Council  and  officers 

Must  attend  to  all  suits,  pro  and   con 13 

Mn-t  report  amounts  due  and  in  suit  at  the  end  of  his  term 14 

:  'enalty  for  neglect  of  duty 

To  record  privileges,  when  and  how 

Office  hours  for  business 

AWNINGS. 

Persons  may  erect,  on  banquettes,  alter  obtaining  lines  fromsui 

Size  of  posts,  and  manner  of  erection 

Additional  plank  to  be  used,  etc 

Fixed  Beats  against  posts  prohibited 16 

Penalty  for  contravention 

Posts  not  to  be  leas  than  five  feet  from  corners  id"  banquette  I 

BALLS. 

\,'.,t  to  be  given  without  license. and  penal tj  is 

Commissary  to  attend,  and  keep  order.  . 

Liquors  and  refreshments  ma]  be  sold  at  ''■ 

\\vi  ETTES. 

Penalty  for  driving  or  riding  on, . 

Width  of,  generally 
#    w  idth  of,  "u  Canal  Avenne 

Width  of,  on  First  Street 

Mode  of  constructing  paved   i 

i  in,  balfof  cost  of  mal  Ing  U  hi 

Plan  of  plank  banquettes  or  walks 

Awnings  may  lie  made  over,  and  how 


. 

.  and  council  to  p  18 

j  be  pirated  on,  and  now 

ami  a  indow  -.  on,  iiral 
■  rloa  from  -jo 

ling  on,  must  I"- 1 
:  when  paved 

more  tlian  one  allowed  under  one  license  il 

!N<;. 
Prohibited  in  day  time,  und 
Parents  and  gue 
BATT1 

■ 
Surveyor  to  point  out.  and  give  ]>•-..  14 

ii:\  for  hauling  sand  witlin-.it  permit 
v  for  moving  sand  oul  <•!'  limit? 
fDS  OF  OFFICERS. 
All  officers  to  give  bond 
What  kind  "t  Mcurity  required 

When  security  musi  be  gli  en  

y  .iv 

BOOK  OF  PL  \ 

Principal  assessor  to  make  1.: 

\  .ii  RECORDS  0     1 
.  ged  with  the  - 
0  permit  them  i"  i>"  taken  from  1 
Ma\  L'ii  e  certified  transcrii  1      \8 

Materials  and  dimensions  of  bi  •  II 

and  dimensions  of  the  JAt  enue 

Po  be"  made  and  repaired  with  cypre  >in<  19 

td  timber  to  be  used. 

Mad<  .    

HERS, 

daughter  in  houses      ...  

oxne  sudden  mean- 7.; 

To  pay  stall  rent  and  meal  tax  to  tanner  of  market 1 ; 

•ject  to  penalty  for  selling  bad  meal 45 

Musi  keep  clean  in  market 

■  .-lean  b tails 

BUILDING 

Buildings  t>>  bo   .  .  .  . 

ind  to  be  raised  before  build  1  80 

Buil  walls  on  the  front  line,         

im  banquette "jo 

Distance  for  stepB,  door  and  window  banquette  20 

tened,  « lien 
er 

be  reported  -l 

20 

Ifustl 

Penaltj   for  drii  .22 

l'ri\  B 

on,  if  duly 

23 

;.:; 

i      I  not  be  driven  1  .".  t 


('ANAL  AVENUE. 

Size  of  bridges  on,  and  modeol  constructing i;i 

Size  of  roadways  on 

Size  of  banquettes  on '  17     ,;'_-, 

Line  of,  Axed .  Cs 

CEMETERY. 

Square  No.  7 !  established  for  cemetery 

Ity  fur  interring  dead  elsewhere. , ,  23 

l>c]iih  of  graves •'■; 

Price  of  interment 23     28 

Cemetery  musl  be  kepi  in  good  order  by  Sexton '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'."  24     h 

Penalty  for  false  representation  as  to  col< 24 

Penally  for  negled  of  duty  by  Bexton   ...                     .... .  24 

Manner  of  making  tombs j  J 

Commissary  to  visit  and  inspect  cemeter ,  "i 

of  vaults 

imes  and  trading  in,  forbidden WWW.  27 

corpse  to  be  buried  within  forty-eighl  hours  . . .     . . ......  27 

A  corpse  may  be  disinterred  and  removed,  how \\\  27 

Prices  to  be  paid  for  coffins ''  '•< 

Manner  of  effecting  interments                  ".-, 

Price  to  be  pai                arer "/-, 

ipt,  with  burial  certificate,  to  be  delivered  to  sexton !       W, 

d  particulars 25 

Pri if  tomb  lots  and  vaults V-      ~>\. 

' 

ly  for  burial  of  the  dead  26 

Lots  to  be  forfeited,  when,  and  p  2C 

Vaults  may  be  rented  from  the  city  one  year »  "  26 

The  poor  to  be  gratuitously  buried     .  ' .''  26 

Vault-  musl  be>kepl  closed 27 

Vaults,  tombs  and  -rave.-'  opened  on  order  of  mayor  or  comptroller  27 
Vaults  and  tombs                 kept  in  good  order 

charivari  

Penalty  for  engaging  in 

coFPn  

Amount  allowed  for  those  furnished  b  oa 

COLLECTOR.  

How  and  when  elected *a 

Musi  lake  oath,  ami  give  bond 'WW.  49 

To  eollect  and  receipt   fur  moneys 

To  pay  over  weekly  to  treasurer,  ami  file  receipt  with  comptroller 

To  enter  hi?  lulls  in  a  register 

To  enter  date  of  payment  in  register 

To  credii  warrant-  with  amount  of  taxes  due  fn 

rl <■  record  privili 

< tlliee  ho  -', 

COMMISSARY.  

How  and  when  1  lei  ■  <1 *q 

Must  take  oath  ami  give  bond   ....  in 

de  in  tin-  city" '.WW. 

ling  liquors  without  li<  1  n  • 
To  arresl  peddlers  fo  "„j 

la 

Reward  f<  1 

property  to 

■ 


VI 

90,     M 

.■I  in:; 



en<    - 
■ 
.   lings  ob  20 

-   rveyor ft persons  making  improvements 



\  of  noticea  ....        ..... 

To  take  census  yearly,  ana  compensation   therefor 31,       1 

porf  monthly  the  work  <lmi i  streets  and  81 

-l t  :iml  Bell  hogs II 

in  poii  in  dogs,  lmw  and  when 11 

'I  o  repoi  I  all  offendei  -               i 

i ..  impound  L'ont- l- 

To  take  account  of  timber,  and  report  to  comptroller 

To  remove  and  abate  nuisances  and  offences,  and  arrest  offenders. . . .  55 

To  brand  cattle,  and  charge  for 11 

'in  preserve  order  al  balls         i<> 

uperintend  the  making  of  ditches :m 

'I'.,  demand  license  from  peddlers,  and  seize,  and  how  in  proceed 

Empowered  t"  collect  boat  tax  for   jelling 

ollect  timber  ta- .' 

To     ■  dy  ni'  weights  ; *. » i ■  1  measures 

Not  t"  remote  dirt  from  one  place  t"  another. without  instruction 

Tn  \  isil  ami  inspect  market         45 

Tn  enter  public  houses,  and  report  disorder  i<>  mayoi i" 

in  \  i.-ii  mid  inspect  cemetery,  ami  report  in  mayor -'  I 

COMMITTEES. 

Manner  of  appointing  Btanding  <  "i Ittees,  and   their  duties, 

tides  9  ami  'J7.  Rule  8,  0,  I 

Time  to  meet  for  business. :'i 

COUNCILMEN. 

Division  lor  long  and  Bhoxi  term .■*:'• 

Shall  not  in-  security  or  contract 8 

COMPTROLLER. 

How  ami  when  elected M 

'In  take  oath  ami  give  i I     *9 

Vacancy,  how  filled :; 

examine  claims  ^ 

'I'..  countersign  warrants   88 

To  take  charge  of  real  estate 

To  keep  a   el  oi  I !■.-!        38 

To  examine,  enter  ami  certify  bills  against  city :i- 

To  make  oul  and  countersign  receipts  ami  bills * :;:i 

Tn  make  yearly  statement  of  revenue  and  expenditure     S3 

.  rman  <<\  Finance  to  appro; e  acci Is,  and  when :;-; 

To  make  monthly  report  of  licenses  taken 83 

To  make  yearly  delinqnenf  tax  list                                    83 

Office  boars  for  business 80 

Penaltj                                       '•» 

DITCH 

Made  at  expense  of  the  cltj               '',( 

■  -i.                             '      84 

Penalty  tor  filling  or  itopping ■'•'-'■  •• ' 

Those  without  muzzlei  to  be  poisoned,  how  and  when 11 

Vicious  ami  noisy  not  large 83 


VII 

ELECTIONS. 

Mayor  ami  Council,  QOW  elected 2 

Notice  to  be  given  of  elections  (Art.  31,  Rules) '-'.  10 

KERRY. 

Parties  to.  and  limits :;."> 

To  be  Bold  tor  two  years,  and  terms :!■"> 

Keeper  to  have  Bign-board,  etc 35 

Hours  of  travel :iii 

Rates  of  fere 'M'< 

FENCES. 

What  is  a  legal  fence  .  .  21 

How  repaired :.'l 

FIRING  GUNS. 
.    Penalty  for  52,    .".I 

FIRE  DEPARTMENT. 

Lot  purchased  for  use  ol  '  took  and  Ladder  <  !o.  No.  l 37 

Lot  appropriated  for  use  of  Fire  <  Jo.  No.  1 37 

Money  appropriations  on  conditione 

FREE  PEOPLE  I       I    lLOR. 

(See  Blaves)     7:' 

FIRST  STREET. 

Size  of  banquettes  and  roadways  on 65 

Pari  of,  widened  by  X.  I  >.  and  Carrollton  Railroad  Co 6G 

i    BOATS. 

Landing  for,  regulated  how VI 

Tax   on 

Commissary  empowered  to  collect  tax 67 

(.OATS. 

Xoi  to  nil  or  be   Fastened  in  street- 

GUN  POWDER. 

Vendors  noi  to  keep  more  than  30  lbs 37 

Other  persons  not  m  ire  than  5  lbs 

HOGS. 

To  be  shot  and  sold II 

JAIL  OB  WATCH-HOI 

Prisoner-  not  to  be  kepi  more  than  twenty-four  hour-. 

Fees  for  prisoners  lived 59 

Mayor  to  keep  in  order  and  supplied 

LANDING  (seePort). 

Boats  may  sell  at  and  tax  for  

Commissary  to  collect  the  tax 

1  Charge  for  lying  there 

LAW  SUITS.  ♦ 

1  !oste  in  certaii  i    

Id  A 

Penalty  lor  riding  or  driving  on • 

Commissan  ;  i  'dear  it 
LICENSES. 

Liquor  licenst  ■  

Mayo,-  to  grant,  upon  bond  given 

Number  of  license  to  be  on  door 

'  lannol  be  transferee  1  

Mayor  may  withdraw,  in  <  

Liquor  not  to  be    old  to  soldi,  r 

be   Iml  .ii  10  o'clock 

Liquor  not  (.>  be  sold  without  license,  nn 

Liquor  not  to  bo  sold  or  traded  t<>    i 

Commissary  to  enter  public  houses,  and 
nisi  lie  obtained  for  certain  nth 
required 

No  liquor  to  be  sold  " 


VIII 

LICl 

;.  under  penalty 

i.    i:t 
be  kcjii  and  1 1 

43 

Market]  41 

rent  and  i 

:i Ifil.  on  si'!'  11 

Appli    •  da  i"  be  m 

Applicants  to  Bwear 

otto  transfer stal 

Whi  forfeited 14 

ling  bad  meatt       .  ....  

i  throw  bad  i  :■•..'  into  i 

musl  be  <  lean    .  ....... .4/ 

■  -.'II  in.  nnde  ■  i  en  ilty 
Com 
Farmer  to 

Farmer  to 
aertofurni 
:••:  aol  to  carry  on  b 

ICU   fu  V.'ili:  1.'» 

...    .       IT 
ir  to  i.inn  out;  ' 

•  not  to  be  ',: 

Penalty  for  nuisance  in.  and  vulga 
ilty  for  refn 
M  \\ni;. 

I  -  President  of  Com  

When  to  vote.  

Duties  and  salary  Bxed   3 

'!'•>  reporl  Coiincllmen  and  ol 

Shall  keep  ;i  \"  





To  draw  warrants  for  salaries  when  due 

Chairman  of  Finance  to  Bigo  warrant 

To  order  prin  lone  i>y  ant  '  ' 

To  advert!  . 

[  fei  35 

ittend  i"  police  j  ill   . 
lirect  police  oflBci  i 

olice  

aw  warrai 
Draw  warrants  for  po 

To  h&\  B  I 

irtei  .3 

lo 

Uitb<  i  







To  draw  wa  I        '_" 

TS >1 

ictor  , ....       8 


IX 

MAYOR  AND   COUNCIL. 

When  and  bow  elected ] 

Mayor  to  preside  over % 

Number  to  form  a.  quorum •_> 

( .'eneral  powers  of ;;,  {      - 

Number  required  to  lay  a  tax  or  license,  and  amount :; 

When  to  elect  officers   and  fix  their  salaries,  etc ...3, 

To  decide  on  qualifications  of 

How  to  fill  vacancies 

Duties  of  Mayor 3 

Shall  not  lie    security  or  contractor • ...        3 

Exempt  from  giving  security I 

May  impose  lines,  seize  ami  arrest 

Required  to  establish  public  Bchools | 

Number  of  Directors  ami  quorum  fixed 1 

To  receive  school  fund  from  State,  etc i 

What  they  shall  require  of  the  officers I 

Oath  of  office,  who  may  administer 

When  to  fix  the   rate  of  taxes 

Power  to  make  public  works,  etc 

How  to  open,  widen  or  improve  public  Btreets,  etc.  i; 

How  to  contest  their  election 

What  officers  they  shall  elect :; 

To  hold  property  only  for  municipal  and  school  purposes   I 

Penalty  for  interfering  with  election  of ...'.      7 

Rules  for  business. . :i.     in 

Power  over  levi  and  public  places. 

NEW  ORLEANS. 

Carts,  etc..  of.  to  pass  free 

NOI8 

Penally  for  making   in  street- 
Mti-:  be  prohibited  in  liquor  houses 

NUISANCES  (SeeOflbi' 

Commissary  to  remove 

Penalty  for 30,     5  I 

OFFICERS. 

nl  duties  must  be  fixed  b<  

To  be  elected  in  October 

How  they  must  give,  security * 47 

1  security  to  be  gh  en 

Salaries  to  be  paid  when  due 

We  voters  of  the  city,  ami  rei  ide  therein. 

Mast  be  sworn  and  give  bond 

Penalty  for  neglect  of  duty 

Duties  in  reaped  to  1  ,  <i  by  them 

Where  to  1. 

tion 

Must  look  ' 

'  I' 

ad  index  book-  

To  deliver  all  a-  

How  to  notify  all  per,,,. 

To  mark  and  number  | 

talty  for  interfering  with 

appoint  depute 
In  case  of  death,  vacancy  filled  by  new  1 

1 
Con;; 


■rnit  them  to  be  taken  from    B 

pies,  nnd  charge  therefor. .   . 

r  public  *  B 

AND  Nl 
.  in«  buildings,  walls,  etc  61 

i 
Firing  guns  and  burning  n 

lml<  .  lewdness,  eh  .vj 

re 'of  naked  person  . 

•  offal  in  the  streets 

..;  dead  animals  in  the 
Keeping  offal  or  dead  animals  on  premises  62 

r,  etc,  and  stopping  drains 
iloving  earth  or  sail..  .     S3 

DisfLg  ivemento,  walks,  roads,  eb  68 

Animals  on  sidewalks,  levi  S3 

Obstructing  crossing 

Vicious,  diseased  and  deformed  animals  53 

Wild  and  •">:; 

■  ial  and  pa 

..nd  immoral  exhibitions.  .  58 

mdalous  prints  and  picture! 

and  adulterated  food  and  drink  ...... 

Pilling  lots  and  square-  ,r»=l 

ovens,  Btanlee,  wells  and  priviei 

Chimneys  of  smith  shops,  etc  64 

at  obstruct]  0 1 

Officers  and  employees  nol  to  be  interfered  with       ;,-t 

Batture  sand ... 

md  driving  on  Btreets  and  railroads  54 

Pent  ommltting 54 

•  v  and  police  tu  denounce  and  report        

,.i  \  ami  police  to  nders 

Parents  of  minora  responsible 

irs  of  slave-  responsible 54 

Img  and  infuriating  animala  (see  slaughter  T.t 

Inflating  meat 7.'5 

Slaughtering  in  open  air 12 

PEIVTLEG 

Por  taxes  and  works  to  be  recorded  7s 

Attorney  i      '  tor  to  do  it 78 

PEDDLEB 

have  License,  and  exhibit  it  to  Commissary  on  demand v> 

.-lave-  Belling  tor  masters,  must  be  named  in  license 

:'  >•  to  do  notify  and  seize,  when,  and  how  to  pr id  ,   . . 

Mt. 

bed 

<  lhargee  for  the  admission  of  animals ,'it; 

Amount  paid  to  persons  delivering  Btraya  at  pound 56 

Charges  for  maintaining  animals ."><; 

All  charges,  with  costs  of  advertising,  to  be  paid  i»y  claimants  of  ani- 
mals    56 

per  to  enter  description  of  all  animals  in  honk :>C, 

56 

■i  to  Bell 5fi 

•  i  be  recorded 5G 

Is  to  Treasurer,  after  deducting  oosts  and  charges.  c>r> 

•  r  entitled  to  receive  remainder  of  proceed-,  less  "lie-tenth .r>7 

■  make  monthly  report 57 


XI 

PRINTER. 

How  and  when  elected,  and  duties  of 60 

Must  publish  in  French,  when 60 

His  work  to  be  done  by  another,  when 60 

Must  furnish  twelve  copies  of  each  paper  containing  published  pro- 
ceedings           60 

PUBLIC  SCHOOL. 

Must  be  established  and  maintained I 

Board  of  Directors,  how  and  when  elected I.     60 

Duties  of  Board,  and  powers 61 

Must  meet  once  a  month 61 

Vacancies  in,  how  filled 61 

To  report  quarterly  to  the  Council 61 

Bills  of,  paid  when  approved  by  three  Directors 

Forfeit  membership,  by  absence 

Children  of  non-residents,  how  admitted 

Children  of  transient  residents,  *how  admitted 62 

School  money  received  from  State,  specially  appropriated  to  use  i 

schools 

Directors  to  be  sworn 61 

Duties  of  Secretary  to  Board 61 

Means  and  mode  of  payment 

POLICE  DEPARTMENT.  . 

Who  compose  it.  and  their  duties 

Mayor  to  regulate  and  appoint  special  police "i!i 

Police  jail  to  be  kept  in  order 

Prison  fees,  etc 

PORT  OR  LANDING. 

Commissary  to  regulate .r>7 

Commissary  to  collect  charges 67 

jela  charged  $10 ,f>8 

Vessels  charged  $5 58 

When  to  be  sued 

Boats  may  sell  there 

Commissary  to  collect  tax 

Rafts  of  timber,  etc 

PUBLIC  WORKS. 

Councilmen  and  officers  not  to  contract  for  (Charter)  :; 

ROADS  AND  STREETS. 

Plight  of  way  granted  to  Jefferson  and  Pontcharlnun  Railroad,  o  I  cer- 
tain conditions 

Single  track  through  Levee  street  granted. 
Company  to  fill  and  grade  Levee  street ....... 

May  run  locomotives,  on  conditions. 

I "pper  Line  street  to  be  widened I 

Double  track  through  Upper  Line  street 

turc  of  right  to  run   locomotives  on  I  1"  be  declared 

and  enforced,  when 64 

New  streets  not   to  be  laid   out  in  the  city,  unless  a  plan 

approved  by  Council 
Brown  <y  Co..  Railroad  priviic-^ 
Line  of  Canal  avenue  fixed 
Line  of  First  street  ehanped 

■ ;  bands  to  be  paid  monthly 
Plum  and  Mary  streets  extended 
Snort  and  Zimpei  streets  • 

•  >■!   line  changed. 
Railroad  on  Hampi 

Kai-<T's  railroad  privilege 
Width  of  banquette-  and    road 
Width  of  banquettes  on  ot 


XII 

Kir  ranted  to  N.  0.  A   ('.   Railroad  I  to 

•  tin  (  onditions  anil  restricts 
\\ "iilth  of  new  Bl 

San.  •! 

■  expense  i 
•1  granted  to  cul  trees  on  ti 
Dirt  not  1  ?ed  from  place  to  place  without  Instructions,  J  I  I 

i 

Those  of  office;  month]  \  . 

■  (OL. 

I  ool. 

.iTAKY. 

Who  to  be  appointed,  and  duties ' . .        L, 

Musi  keep  record  of  proa  ii 

t  send  copies  of  ordinal  iquired  to  execute  th< 

1.  H 

When  to  order  elections 

Authorized  to  administer  oatii 

:ITY. 

5,    49 

ive  security 47 

When  to  furnish  •  

•    iking  license  to  Bell  liquor  must  give 

i'ur, 

Parmer  of  mai '  

Lien  on  reveni 

. 
Animals  must  be  slaughtered  In  78 

Musi  )"•  kept  clean 

•  permitted  within  certain  limits 78 

Anii  killed  by  some  sudden  meai  78 

Penalty  for  killing  animal  infuriated 78 

menting of  animals  forbidden ~:; 

:     OADS. 

Drown  &  Co.  have  a  temporary  privilege 

Caiser  J.  has  a  privilege  through  HampBon  str<  S 

i  ompleted  In  2  yean 

action  prescribed 

Not  to  be  used  for  any  other  line 83 

and    how  drawn 

Time  fixed  for  running,  and  fare. ...                          ' 

irity  and  penalty 

Bow  and  when  the  contracl  annulled •     8f» 

How  the  property  will  pa  .85 

roR. 



«  >ffli  and  how  tilled 

.  in  oilier,  how  filled  . 

lint  deputy,  when 

office  in   the  city.  .        

i I,  and    take  oath 

building  i, etc.... 

raperintend  public  work *8 

.  md  record  public  «  ork        £:; 

Ive  pei  mil  ig  batture  saud.  -  • ' 

•  •  ' ' 

<  (fflce  hours 

Jli-  ■  


XIII 

SURVEYOR,  Continubd. 

Required  to  run  certain  linos,  and  make  measurements,  and  report 

diagram  of  same  to  Council 

riiia  and  report  approved 

Certain  surplus  land  ordered  to  be  embodied  in  certain  squares. .  H7.    7f. 

Report  of  commit! in  surveys 76 

Mayor  directed  to  have  plan  homologated 77 

Surveyor  to  give  awning  linos 15 

To  give  banquette   lines 17 

TARGET  SHOOTING. 

Prohibited,  except  in  pi  itection  alleys 78 

Mode  of  constructing  protection  alleys 78 

TAXES. 

What  is  subject  to  taxation '■'. 

Batture  lets  not  to  be  taxed 19 

On  vessels  at  the  landing -r>!' 

Timber  and  lumber  tax l!" 

On  boats  selling  at  landing 

Tax  on  cord  WOO  "9.     80 

TIMBER. 

Tax  on,  and  amounts 7!).     .so 

Commissary  to  report  timber  to  comptroller,  and  to  collect  tax.    .79,    80 
Eat'ts.  lumber,  wood,  etc.,  to  pav  tax 79,     80 

TOMB  LO 

Price  of 25 

Mayor  authorized  to  sell 25 

Ificate  of  Comptroller  and  Mayor,  a  sufficient  deed 'J.*> 

Lots  not  to  be  transferred  without  consent  of  Council 2*1 

TREASURER. 

ted    annually 49 

To  take  oath  and  give  bond 49 

Duties  generally 

To  exhibit  books  to  Comptroller 80 

Make  quarterly  report 

To  report  at  regular  meetings  of  Council 

To  pay  out  no  money  without  resolution  of  the  Council 

To  report  >'ipts  to  comptroller 

To  take  certain  receipts  as  cash 29 

Where  to  keep  office 50 

Power  to  sue.  and  responsible  for  neglect 81 

Form  of  books 

Rooks  and  account  Bubject  to  inspection  at  all  times 

When  to  cancel  and  tile  vouchers 

Bank  account 8] 

TREASURER  AND  I  OR. 

Collector,  and  give  bond  according! 
. 

VACA 

Oft! 

Not   appi 
VAGRANTS. 

To  be 
warm;  A  NTS. 

. 

GHTS  AND 

To   1: 


-A.I>T    ACT 

TO  INCORPORATE  Tin: 'MTV  OF  CARROLLTON. 


Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  by 
of  Low  I,  that  the  territory  and  inhabitants 

within  the  following  limits,  to-wrl  :  Beginning  at  the  Mississippi  River,  "ii  the 
lower  line  of  the  town  of  Carrollton,  in  the  pariBh  of  Jefferson,  following 
line  extended  to  the  line  of  the  city  or  New  Orleans;  thence  following  said  city 
line  to  the  northern  limits  of  said  town  of  Carrollton;  thence  following  the  rear 
line  of  said  town,  as  laid  down  on  the  original  plan  thereof,  to  the  extreme 
north-west  point  formed  by  the  junction  of  north  and  south  line  street;  thence 
along  the  west  side  of  south  line  street  to  upper  line  street;  thence  alon) 
the  upper  line  of  upper  line  street  to  tin-  River  Mississippi;  thence  to  the  point 
of  beginning,  and  not  exceeding  the  limits  assigned  to  -aid  town  per  the  original 
plan  thereof,  by  C.  F.  /impel,  dated  April  sixteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
thirty-three,  and  deposited  in  the  office  ofG.  R.  Stringer,  then  Notary  Public  in 
New  Orleans,  shall  continue  to  be  a  corporation  ami  body  politic,  with  per- 
petual succession,  by  the  name  of  the  ••city  oi  Carrollton." 

.2.  />''  Uj  </.<(•<•..  That  the  affairs  of  said  City  of  Carrollton  shall 

iie  administered  by  a  Mayor  and  eight  Councilmen,  ami  in  ami  by  the  name  of 

r  and  Council  of  the  i  rollton,  the  said  corporation  shall  be.  and 

is  hereby  made  capable  in  law.  to  sue  and  be  sued.,  plead  and  he  impleaded, 
answer  and  be  answered,  defend  and  be  defended,  in  any  court  or  court 

other  place  whatever:  but  in  all  judicial  proceedings, 
where,  by  existing  laws,  bond  and  security  is  required  from  litigants,  the  City 
of  Carrollton  shall  be  dispensed  from  furnishing  bond  or  security:  also  to  have. 
hold,  purchase,  receive,  possess,  enjoy  and  retain  to  them  and  their 
all  and  every  kind  and  finality  of  property  whatever:  provided,  the  same  lie  for 
municipal  and  public  school  purposes;  and  the  same  to  sell,  transfer,  alien  and 
lease,  farm    out    ami  dispose  of:  and  may  have  and    rise  a  i  i  al.  which 

they  may  alter  and  change  at  ; .:  id  they  shall  Lai 

duty  it  shall  be  to  keep  a  correct   record  of  all  their   doings,  and   make  public 
the  same,  by  posting  them  up  in  two  or  more  public  pla-  »r  to 

see  them  published  in  any  paper  thai  may  be  printed  therein:  and  shall  perform 
such  other  duties  pertaining  to  the  office  of  a  s  I  Coun- 

cil may  prescribe.    The  first  election  shall  be  held  onthefi  \pril. 

teen   hundred  and  fifty-nine,  from  ten   o'clock  A.  M.,  1 
and  all  subsequent  elections  on  (he  first  Monday  in  0  from 

the  hour  ot  kA.  M..  tq  the  hour  of  four  o'clock  P.  M..  ng  in 

een  hundred  and  sixty;  and  no  person  shall  be  allowed  to  vote  for  Mayor 

luncUmen,  unle  duly  qualified  v<  ■  the 

islature  of  Louisiana,  under  the  Constitutio  i 
dent  in  said  city:  and  no  person  shall  be  eligibl  mn- 

oilman,  unl  bovc  requi 

city  for  t!  ■  hall 

be  elected  annually,  and  shall  hold  hi 

I  until  the  first  Monday 

ber,  eighteen  hundred   am  I  iy  in 

I 
the  fl    t 

i -nieni  timi ' 

the  p 


forthwith  n<   '  ceived  the  highest  number"  of  votes  of  their 

election;  and  In  \  otee,  the  Sheriff  shall  order  another  election,  to 

[ne  between  (hose  who  were  tied  at  the  first  election,  and  so  on  until  a 
quorum,  as  hereinafter  provided,  is  obtained;  and  when  the  Mayor  and  Council 
thus  elected  have  organized,  the  Sheriff  shall  deliver  to  them  the  returns  of  all 
elections  ordered  by  him,  to  be  filed  with  the  archives  of  the  city. 

;.  <iv..  That  said  Mayor  and  Council  shall,  at  some 
convenient  time  previous  to  each  annual  election,  appoint  three  suitable  persons 
fVnin  among  tine  qualified  voters  of  said  city,  as  Commissioners  to  hold  said  elec- 
tion, at  such  place  as  shall  be  prescribed  by  said  Mayor  and  Council,  and  for 
th«'  purpose  of  filling  vaoanoies  in  their  body;  the  Mayor  and  Council  shall  fix 

[me  and  place  for  holding  the  election,  and  appoint  three  Commissioners, 

as  in  the  case  of  the  annual  election;  provided,  that  no  election  shall  lie  held  in 

any  house  where  a  liar  is  kepi  fur  the  sale  or  distribution  "i  liquors;  and  in  all 

.  ten  days'  notice  shall  be  given  before  any  election  is  held.    The  Commis- 

ers  of  said  elections  shall  be  sworn  to  faithfully  and  impartially  bold  and 
conduct  the  said  elections,  previous  to  presiding  at  the  same:  and  In  case  an] 
one  of  the  Commissioners,  duly  appointed  as  aforesaid,  should  fail  to  attend  at 
the  hour  fixed  to  open  the  polls  at  any  election,  then  the  Commissioners  present 
shall  till  the  vacancy;  and  if  hut  one  Commissioner  is  present  at  the  hour  fixed 

for  the  election,  he  shall    select  another,  and    the  two  shall  select  the  third,  and 

worn  one  Bhatl  swear  tl thers:  and  in  case  n  on.'  of  "the  ( lommissioners  ap- 
pointed by  the  Council  shall  attend,  at  die  hour  fixed  to  open  the  polls  and  hold 
said  election,  it  shall  he  tin-  duty  of  the  .Mayor  of  said  city  to  appoint  two  persons 

rve  as  Commissioners,  and  those  two  shall  select  a  third;  and  in  ease  of  the 

absence  or  inability  of  the  Mayor,  the  Secretary  of  the  said  Mayor  and  Coun- 
cil shall  perform  the  duty  herein  above  assigned  the  Mayor.  Ami  it  shall  he 
the  duty  of  the  Commissioners  to  certify  in  writing  the  result  of  all  the  elections 
held  by  them,  showing  the  number  of  votes  polled,  and  the  number  for  each 

person  voted  for.  and  deliver  the  same  with  the  li-t  of  voters  taken,  and  the  bal- 
lot box  and  ..ithin  twenty-four  hours  after  closing  of  the  polls,  to  the 
etaryoftbe  Mayor  and  Council,  who  shall  forthwith  notify,  the  person  or 
•us  who  have  received  the  highest  number  of  votes,  of  their  election,  and 
file  the  papers  returned  in  the  archive;  of  the  city.    The  Commissioners  of  all 

elections  held  under  this  charter  are  hereby  rested  with  full  power,  and  it  is 
hereby  made  their  duty  to  order  the  arrest  and  commit  to  jail  until  the  election 
is  over  and  the  hallots  are  counted ;  any  person  who  may  interfere  with  them  in 
the  discharge  of  their  duty,  or  dii  turb  the  peace  and  quiet  >'\'  the  neighborhood 
around  the  polls;  and  it  is   he,  I  '  the  dutj  of  :>il  the  Sheriffs,  Deputy 

Sheriffs,  Constables  and  police  officers  of  the  parish  of  Jefferson  or  City  of 
Carrollton;  ami  in  default  of  an  offii  citizen  of  the  city,  to  exesute  all 

ordei  ied  by  any  bwo  of  said  Commissioners,  and  deliver  the  of- 

fender to  the  city  or  parish  jailor,  at  (he  jail:  but  oo  person  thus  arrested  shall 

be  deprived  Of  his    vote,  [f  he  he  a  voter'  and    desire     to  vote.      In  the  event  id' 

the  resignation  or  refusal  to  serve,  of  the  Mayor  and  all  the  Councilmen,  or  of 
the  resignation  or  refusal  I  aoh  number  of  them  so  as  to  leave  no  quo- 

rum to  do  business,  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  (d'  the  Council 
to  appoint  three  Cup,.  .  and  order  an  election  to  till  the  vacancies  thus 

made,  and  which  election  shall  he  conducted  as  in  case  of  the  annual  election; 

and  in  the  event  of  the  Mayor  and  Council  neglecting  to  provide  for  the  holding 
of  the  annual  election,  it  -hall  he  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  to  appoint  Commis- 

!fl  and   order  said  election. 

c.  I.  Beit)  ■  c,  That  within  five  days  after  their  election,  the 
-aid  Mayor  and  Councilmen  shall  meet;  and  the  said  Mayor  shall  preside  over 
thai  ami  all  subsequent  meetings,  and  the  Mayor  and  five  Councilmen  shall  form 
a  quorum  to  trai  hall  not  proceed  to  business  until  they 
have  been  duly  sworn  and  qualified,  in  the  absence  of  (lie  Mayor,  six  Council- 
men  shall  fomi  a  quorum  to  do  business,  01 f  whom  Bhall  I leoted  by  them- 
selves as  President,  pro  tern.,  to  act  in  the  place  of  the  Mayor  for  the  time  being, 
fhe  President, .whether  it  bo  ft           or  01    Councilman,  shall   have  a  casting 

id  in  election  or  appoints  I  r-.  and  when  the  Council 

by  ballot. 

That  the  said  Mayor  and  Council,  when  duly 


organized  are  empowered  to  ordain, establish  and  cause  to  be  carried  into  effi 

and  execution,  all  such  by-laws,  ordinances,  resolutions,  rules,  and  regulations  as      ,  ) 

they  may  deem  expedient  for  the  good  government  of  said  corporatiomj^cl^are  ,  {/  ■  w 
not  contrary  to  the  Constitution  and  laws  of  this  State  or  of  l  lie  ^MjtlflMMtHtqp 
They  are  empowered  and  authorized  to  levy  and  COllecl  taxes  and  ehai-geTiiTsUcl 
manner  as  they  may  deem  expedient  on  all  steamboats, ships,  flatboats,  rafts, and 
water-crafts  of  every  description,  landing  at  the  levee,  batturo  or  wharves  in  fronl 
of  said  city;  also,  upon  all  carnages,  omnibusses,  carts,  drays,  wagons,  timber 
wheels  and  any  other  vehicle,  of  whatever  kind,  williin  said  city.  They  are  author- 
ized and  empowered  to  lay  and  collect  an  annual  tax  upon  all  kinds  of  property, 
real  or  personal,  and  slaves,  which  shall  not  exceed  one  per  cent,  of  their  value; 

and  upon  stores,  trades?  professions  or  occupations,  to  such  amount  as  the j 
may  deem  expedient;  provided,  that  in  the  imposition,  assessment  and  collec- 
tion of  any  of  said  taxes  or  charges, equality  .-hall  be  observed,  and  that  the  im- 
position thereof  is  not  contrary  to  law;  and  provided  further,  that  a  majority  of 
all  the  members  composing  the  Mayor  and  Council  concur  therein.  They  are 
empowered  to  pass  ordinances  fur  tie.1  abatement  of  nuisances  and  the  arrest  of 
offenders,  and  to  dispose  of  vagrants.  The  first  Mayor  and  Council  elected  un- 
der this  act  are  hereby  authorized  to  assess  and  collect  the  annual  tax  of 
eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-eight,  (which  the  present  Council  failed  to  do,)  and 
also  the  licenses  on  trades,  occupations  and  professions  for  the  year  eight 
hundred  and  fifty-nine;  said  assessment  to  be  coi  or  before  the  fii 

June,  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-nine. 

Sec.  6.  /■■  id  Mayor  and  Council  shall  annually 

eleet.  under  the  provisions  of  an  ordinance  to  be  binding  in  the  premises,  one 
Comptroller,  who  may  act  as  Secretary  to  the  Mayor  and  Council,  if  (hey  so  or- 
dain; one  Treasurer,  who  may  act  as  Collector  of  Taxes;  one  Surveyor,  one 
Commissary,  three  Assessors  and  such  oth<  as  they  may  deem  a< 

sary  for  the   government  of   the  city;  and  the    term  of  all    ollieers 

shall  commence  on  the  fi]  November  of  each  year.     The  duties  and 

compensations  of  all  officers  shall  be  prescribed  and  fixed  by  the  Mayor  and 
Council,  previous  to  the  election  of  the  officers,  and  no  person  shall  be  eli- 
gible as  an  officer  unless  he  be  a  voter  of  said  city  and  ident  therein: 
provided,  that  the  term  of  service  of  the  officers  first  elected,  under  thi 
lion,  shall  begin  on  the  tirst  of  May,  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-nine,  and  ex- 
pire on  the  first  of  November,  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-nine, 

SEC.  7.    \)     m  Ac.,  That    the  Mayor  and  Council   shall   decide 

upon  the  (dection  and  qualifications  Of  its  own  members,  and  of  the  officers 
elected  under  this  act:  and  incase  of  the  incapacity,  negligence  or  malfeasance 
in  office  of  any  Councilman  or  officer  80  elected,  said  Mayor  and  Council 
shall  declare  the  office  vacant:  provided,  five  of  the  whole  number  ot  Coun- 
cilmen  agiee  thereto;  and  provided  further,  that  when  any  vacancy  thu 
curs,  or  happens  by  any  other  means,  it  shall  be  the  duty  ol  r  and 

Council  to  una  order  a  new  (dection  to  till    the  unexpired   term   <<\' 

said  officer  or  Councilman,  according  to  the  rules  hereinbefore  laid  down; 
and  in  case  of  incapacity,  negligence  or  malfeasance  in  office  of  the  Mayor 
so  elected,  the  Council  shall  d  ler  a  now  ■ 

:  provided,  that  six,  of  the  whole  number  of  Count  il  eto. 

Sec.  8.    I  ial  in  addition   to  other  duties  herein  laid 

down,  the  Mayor  of  said  city  shall  superintend  the  police  (hereof,  see  that  the 
ordinances  of,  the  city  are  faithfully  executed,  report  to  the  .Mayor  and  Coun- 
cil, in  writing,  any  Cowneilmanor   officer  of   tic  city  who  may  be  incapable, 
negligent  or  guilty  of-nnlfoa<aM|  in  office,  and   perform  any  other  dutii 
signed  him  by  the  Mayor  and^Hucil.  not  derogatory  to  the  dignity  of  ; 

Bee;  and  the  Mayor  shall  v<-c^B  ol  three  hundred  dollars  per  annum. 

The  Mayor.  <  'ouncilnicn.  .-nyl^  aid   city  shall   not   contract    for  any 

public  work  or  wop  except  with  the  consent  of  the  whole  bod;. 

of  the  Mayor  and   Council;  and    they  shall    not    be  r  any   offlCt 

contractor  of  said   city:  and    the  Mayor  and   <"ouneilmon 

for  twelve  months  alter  the  expiration  of  their  term,  to  any  office  - 
of  which  the  emoluments  have  been   increased,  while  be  v  '•■     ol 

tyor  shall  specially  c< 


•  •  him 

..  That  th 

lyo^a^MN^Hpr  ■•  M:r yor  and  '  'ouncil  ;il  least   h'ii  ■  nuul 

re,  and  shall  not  be  increased  daring  the  term  for  which 
Lcepl  in  cases  where  extraordinary  d  jed  on 

them,  which  shall  be  deoided  by  the  whole  vote  of  the  Mayor  and  Council. 

dec.,  That  the  roads,  Btri  pub- 

lic places  and  thorongh&n  cily  shall  be  under  the  entire  control  of 

said  Mayor  and  Council,  and  they  shall  pass  such  ordinances  For  the 
thereof  as  they  may  deem  expedient:  provided,  that  no  ordinance  in 

shall  interfere  with  (he  d  public  the 

as  laid  down  in  the  Civil  Code  and  la' 

with  the  pov  Br  to  repair,  alter  or  enlasge  the  said  levees,  and,  i 
the  safety  of  the  inhabitan  In  front  of  any  part  of  said 

city,  In  Bach  places  and  manner  as  tl  -.-.  in  their  discretion, 

require;  and  six  of  the  Councilmen,  concurring,  are  empowei 

•  ollect  asp 

city,  to  pay  all  expe  I  irefrom;  they  are  empowered  to 

shell,  or  plans    '  '  public  thoroughfares,  and  charge  the 

1  v  are  empowered  to 
make  wharves,  plant  fie  posts,  and  regulate  the  port  oi  said  city;  also,  to  cause 
vacant  lots  to  bi  '  the  city,  at 

the  owners,  when 

id  Mayor  and  '  !<  uncil  are  hereby 
empowered  to  impose  lines  and  penalties  for  the  viol  rdinances, 

not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  contravention;  to  sue  for  and  collect 

•  -MH-:  and  they  are  he  owered,  through  their  <  y  and  Po- 

ain  and  provisionally  seize  all  ci  omni- 

busses,  timber  wheels,  or  other  vehich 
flatboats,  ships,  rafts,  produce, goods,  and  ether  moveable  property  upon  h 

or  liable  to  a  line 

'•  property  h«\  i  1  contrary  to  or 

in  violation  of  any  ordinance  or  resolt  incil;  and 

are  empowered  to  arrest  and  detain  any  slave  which  may  lie  found  contravening 

their  or  the  laws  of  the  State,  until  the  owner  of  such  slave  can  be 

notified,  and  satisfies  the  penalty  and  pays  expe  i 

Si  .v..  '1'hat  the  said  Maj  i 

orized  and  required  to  establish,  maintain  and  support  one  or  more  public 
ols  for  the  gratuitous  education  of  white  children,  permam  lent  in 

said  city:  which  Bchools  Bhall  in  all  respects,  excepl  the  i  int.  mainte- 

nance and  support  thereof,  be  under  the  control  and  man.  I  i  Board  of 

.-even  Directors,  who  shall  be  annual]  by  said  Mayor  and  Council,  and 

who  shall  possess  all  the  powers  ...        tors  of 

publii  l9jto      '     the  State.     Said  poin^aPresi- 

dent  from  mBJjbers,  and  th  ., incil  shall 

aid   Board,  and  any  four  members  shall  constitute  a 

i|iionim.     Said  Directors  shall  establish   r;iLg$    for    •  jjfo  nient;  and 

hall  report  quarterly  to  the  Mayor  a^fflMju&ti    ^4*  .ditioii  of  the 

schools,  and  their  report  Bhall  be  pubii-hen^'!  .le^Mrrffiv' -  and  Council  shall 

lie  entitled  to  receive  all  public  school  moneys  due  to  said  rany  laws 

of  the  State,  and  the  current  expen  »       .      mols  shall  be  paid  by  said 

iM-il,  upon  (hi;  reipiest,  of  saidjfcal  11.  h   I'urm  as 

maybe  d  by  ordinance  of  (lie  Mayo^Ml  <  'oimh-'iI. 

Sec.  13.  Be^itfurth  ,  &c'.,  That  the  B^HMayor  and  (  ouncil  shall  cause 

their  officers  tti  Keep  complete  and  necessary  bo^P^with  ind  lie  records 

and  accounts  of  their  business  done  in  their  respective  offices;  1  pics  of  which 
books,  certified  by  the  Mayor  and  the  officer  who  kept'th  md  stamped 

with  the  city  seal.  Bhall  Berve  as  sufficient  evidence  of  the  contents  of  said  books 
in  a  court,  of  justice  or  record,  or  elsewhere;  and  in  no  case  Bhall  the  officer  be 
ipelled  to  carry  or  send  his  book  or  books,  maps  or  papers,  out  of  his  office., 
.  court  or  elsewhere,  for  evidence;  provided,  this  shall  nol  operate  as  a  ba 
to  the  said  Mayor  and  Council  to  examine  the  books  and  papers  of  their  offloer 


,    aytamejoi  t<  them  to  be  laid  before  them  atanyol  siona. 

The  Mayor  and  Council  shall  require  good  ami  sufficient  bom!  and  securityfrom 


X 


their  officers,  either  real  or  personal,  and  cause  the  bond  to  be  executed  before 
a  Notarv  Public,  and  to  be  recorded  in  the  m  'f  the  parish  of  Jef- 

ferson—:these  lie  Bame  effect  as  in  o 

Sec.  14.   Beitfurtkeri  r  of  said  city  and  the  Secretary 

of  said  Mayor  and  Council  are  hereby  vested  with  full  power  to  administer  the 
oath  of  office  to  the  .Mayor.  Councilmen  ami  officers  of  said  lie  Com- 

missioners authorized  by  thi  :  recfltd  of  the  same. 

Sec.  i.">.   B(  U  the  three  A  elected  ac-         \ 

cording  to  the  provisions  of  thi  •         nated  by  sa   I  or  ami 

Council,  as  principal  ;  and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  make  out 

;iii  accurate  and  distincl  assessment  roll  of  the  landed  property,  buildin 
and  other  property  in  said  i  tion.    The  other  two    '• 

shall  be  designated  a-  Assistant    '  ,  .  and  shall  assist  the  said 

principal  Assessor  in  obtaining         rma  ion.  ownership,  and  description  of  all   (, 
e  property:  and  when  the  asset  menl  roll  is  so  far  made  as  to  show  I 
n  of  all  taxabl 
principal  A*ssessor  in  th  are  herebyves-    ' 

ted  with  all  the   powi  iall  commence 

their  andte  minate  the    \ 

Monday  In   ;-:  ';t  shaU,  so  soon  astermi- 

omptrolfer  of  said  corpora- 
tion; and  shall  cause  to  be  inserted, during  twenl  toftae  in  the  English 
language,  in  the                arnal  of  the  corporation,  or  by  posting  as  required  in 
!i  end,  as  many  til                           nal  may  be  published  within  said 

,  sub- 

ein;  and  during 

weidy  days,  any  one  who  mi  reby,  Bhall  have 

'.ads 
of  said  opposition,  and  og  with  the  pre  lendments  i 

mav  deem  proper;   thai    ai    the  expi  days,  said  Assessors 

Bhall  meet  and  examin 

Offered  in  SUppC  I  !'-  any  alteration  oughi  to 

be  made,  make  the  same  according  in  ir  judgment  may  authorize;  ^ 

and  any  person  who  .  made  opp  ition  may 

have  been  in  whole  or  in*]  within  five 

days  after  said  rejection  and  opinion  o  ii<i  opposi- 

tion to  the  District  Court  within  whose  jurisdiction  said  ssitu- 

where  said  opposition  shall  be  tried  in  the  most  summary  manner,  and  by 
preference,  without  a  jury;  provided,  that  in  case  no  ■  has  been  tiled 

within  the  specified  time,  said     '  or  a.  majority  of  them,  shall  make  a 

written  declaration  a1  the  foot  >  oil,  that  the  finally 

I:  or,  in  ca  e  is  finally 

opposed;  and  th  or  the  collection  of  taxes  due  said  corpo- 

ration, nent  roll  shall  b  •  taken  and  received 

as  conclusive  proof.    After  the  at  roll  has  been  thus  (dosed,  the  ,\s- 

irs  shall  report  the  am  tJ  Council,  who 

shall,  within  thii  hereafter,  fi:  ir   thai  year  on  the 

property  thus  assessed;  and  within  twi 
thus  fixed,  the  princi] 

the  roll,    and   c  which    Bhall 

.hew  :!i"  val  on  the  list,  i  Hint 

^  Hie  owner  or  owners 

of  the  property.  JM. 

office  of  th    ■ 

July  i  '  journal. 

or  by  ippear  at 

:■  the  p  yn  ■  -day  of  Jul 

e  Col  bin.. 

panicd  b; 
of  the  Peace,  that  he  has  1 


G 

and  on  the  ii'l  unpaid  tax  bills,  ii  shall  be  d  attorney 

immediately  to  put  m  suit  all  such  unpaid  bills  for  taxes.    It  shall  be  the  duly  of 

!  of  the  Peace  and  1'  Conns  in  whicb  suits  may  be 

brought,  by  an  advertisement  published  in  tin-  official  newspaper  of  the  city, 

required  in  tne  section  second,  to  cite  all  said  delinquent  tax 

payers  to  appear  in  tv<  from  the  date  of  the  iir.-i  insertion  ol  said  ad- 

rertisement,  before  the  respective  courts  in  which  .-aid  bills  are  put  in  suit,  and 

r  in  the  demand  contained  in  said  tax   bill.    No  petition  shall  be  n< 

,  hill  shall  be  considered  a  ion,  and  tin-  advertisement 

shall  be  considered  as  a  citation, and  no  otb  i  or  citation  shall  bo  ne 

;  said  advertisement  shall  contain  the  name  of  the  Court,  the  names  of  all 
the  defaulting  tax  payers,  and  the  amount  claimed  from  each.  Each  defaulting 
:ver  shall  pay  twenty-live  cents  for  the  costs  of  the  citation  by  advertise- 
ment, together  with  such  subsequent  costs  as  maj  accrue  in  the -nit.  As  soon 
as  the  delay  for  answering,  expressed  in  said  advertisement,  shall  have  expired, 
then  the  further  proc  »id  suit  shall  be  conduct  ing  to  exist- 

ing  laws.    All  tax  hills  shall  hoar  eight  per  cent  per  annum  in,  i  the 

first   .M<inday"i'  -Inly,  in  the  year  in  which  they  are  payable.    The  provisions 
inn  shall  qi  :  unpaid  t< 

Sbc.  ]7.  hat  the  attorney  of  said  city  shall  cause 

10  lie  recorded  i  corder  of  Mortgages  let'  the  parish,  all  tax 

hdls  which  remain  unpaid  a1  the  end  of  the  d<  lay  for  answering,  as  aforesaid; 
provided,  thai  for  each  bill  si.  recorded  the  Recorder  of  Mo  tall  receive 

twent  ad  the  further  sum  of  twent  Lling  and  giving 

the  same:  which   \'''<^  for  recording  and  cancelling  shall  tie 
taxed  as  costs  in  all  hi  upon  ad  said  corporation 

shall  have  a  special  lien  and  p]  ■■!.  to  secure  the 

payment  of  the  taxes  thus  i  with  the  interest  due,  to  be  paid  by  prefe- 

e  before  an;  '  property,  and  shall  exist 

ithout  being  recorded,  from  the  final  uent  rolls. 

That  whenever   the  owner  of  any  property 
in  tront  of  which  paving  of  any  description  whatever,  sidewalks,  banquettes, 
:  et  walks  shall  be  done  within  the  limit*  of  said  ion,  by  order  of 

-aid   Mayor  and   Council,  or  whenever   the  owner  of  any  property  which  has 
filled  up  with  earth,  or  enclosed,  or  fenced  in  by  order  of  said  Council. 
shall  fail  to  pay    the    proportion  or  amount  tor  which  said  property  may  be 
liab';<  n  shall  have  a  special  lien  and  privilege  upon  said 

property,  to  secure  the  payment  of  the  amount  so  due.  with  eight  par  cent,  per 
annum  interest,  from  the  date  on  which  the  same  ought  to  have  been  paid,  to 
be  paid  by  preference  over  any  mor  claim  whatever  upon  said  prop- 

erty; provided,  that  such  privilege  shall  ne.   •  eriod  of  six 

months  from  the  completion  of  said  works,  unless  ihei.il]  for  the  same,  duly 
certified  by  the  Controller  and  Colhv  :  corporation,  has  been  recorded 

in  ii,,.  office  of  the  Recorder  of  Mortgages  of  the  parish  of  Jefferson;  provided, 
further,  that  in  case  such  owner  shall  be  unknown,  or  reside  out,  of  the  city  of 
Carroliton,  the  Collector  skill  insert  a  notice  three  times  in  the  official  journal 
of  the  corporation,  or  by  posting  as  required  in  scond,  within  twenty 

days,  aotifying  such  owner  of  Owners  that,  unless  payment  for  said  work  is  made 

within  thirty  days  from  the  dale   of  the   first   in  ',  thai  the 

said  property  will  be  proceeded  against  in  the  same  manner  as  is  prescribed  in 
the  foregoing  section,  for  the  recovery  of  taxes  due  said  corporation;  and  all 
costs  for  advertising,  re<  ording  or  otherwise,  shall  be  added  to  the  bill,  for  col- 
lection by  the  <. nicer  in  charge  of  it. 

Sec.  L9.  Be  U  further  ■  meted,  &c.,  Thai  whenever  the  Mayor  and  Council  of 
corporation   shall    consider   il  •advisable    to  open,  widen. 

straighten,  extend  or  improve  any  struct  or  pnwlie  place,  or  to  enclose  any 
square  or  public  place,  and  to  expropriate  private  property  for  any  of  said  pur- 
poses, they  shall  have  power  to  order  the  aforesaid  improvements,  and  the 
■  sary  expropriation  of  property  for  said  purposes  to  be,  made,  under  and 
in  accordance  with  the  laws  of  the  State  upon  ^wA\  subjOi  t,  1  >0D  ftined  in  the 
Civil  Code  of  the  Slate. 

BBC,  20.    Bettfurtkei  dkc.,  That  the  certificate  of  surveys  of  the  Sur- 

veyor of  said  city  shall  be  admitted  as  evidence,  on  the  same  footing  as  the 
parish  Surveyor's  certificate,  so  tar  as  regards  the  said  City  of  Carroliton. 


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Sec.  21.  Be  itfurtlwr  enacted,  &c.,  That  in  addition  to  the  powers  herein  con- 
ferred, the  said  Mayor  and  Council,  when  organized,  are  hereby  vested  with 
all  other  rights,  powers,  privileges  and  immunities  incident  to  a  municipal  cor- 
poration and  necessary  for  the  proper  government  of  the  same,  as  are  not  con- 
trary to  the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  have  their  foundation  in  law;  and  all 
the  powers,  rights,  privileges  and  immunities  possessed  and  enjoyed  by  the 
Mayor  and  Council  of  the  city  of  Carrollton,  under  the  charter  of  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  forty-five,  and  the  amended  charter  of  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-four, 
shall  cease  and  terminate,  and  be  vested  in  the  Mayor  and  Council,  as  estab- 
lished in  this  act;  provided,  that  the  said  .Mayor  and  Council,  and  the  officers 
under  said  charter  of  eighteen  hundred  and  forty-five,  and  the  amended  char- 
ier of  eighteen  hundred  and  Bfty-four,  shall  continue  to  discharge  the  duties  of 
their  respective  offices  until  superseded  by  the  operation  of  this  act;  and  that 
the  ordinances  now  in  force  in  said  City  of  Carrollton  shall  remain  in  full  force 
and  vigor,  except  so  far  as  modified  and  repealed  by  this  act,  or  by  the  ordi- 
nances of  the  Mayor  an 

SEC  22.  Be  Ufurth  thai  the  election  of  Mayor  and  Councilmen. 

or  either  of  them,  may  be  contested  by  any  defeated  candidate  for  said  Office, 
Or  by  any  five  citizens:  provided,  the  contestant  files  his  petition  in  the  District 
Court  of  the  parish  of  Jefferson,  within  iive  days  after  the  election,  and  give 
bond  and  security  in  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars,  that  the  suit  is  not  insti- 
tuted to  delay  the  public  business,  or  fpr  annoyance  and  vexation  to  defendant. 
and  to  secure  the  costs  of  suit:  and  if  any  election  shall  beset  aside  or  annulled 
by  decree  ot  said  Court,  on  the  petition  of  citizens  not  being  candidates;  and 
if  the  number  of  vacancies  thus  created  shall  be  so  great  thai  there  remains  not 
a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business,  the  Court  shall  have  power  in  such 
case  to  order  and  appoint  an  election,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  for  filling  the  vacancies  so  created. 

Sec.  23.  Beit  further  enacted,  die,  That  for  any  interference  with  the  Com- 
missioners of  Election  appointed  under  this  act;  for  any  disturbance  at  the  polls 
or  elsewhere,  with  a  view  to  intimidate  voters,  to  change  their  rotes  or  to  pre- 
vent them  from  voting,  for  any  coercion  or  force,  to  make  a  person  vote, 
whether  a  voter  or  not.  for  any  tumult,  riot,  bribery,  or  attempt  at  bribery, 
with  a  view  to  change  the  result  of  any  of  the  elections  held,  or  attempted  to  be 
held,  under  the  provisions  of  this  act.  each  person  offending  shall,  on  convic- 
tion, be  imprisoned,  not  exceeding  six  months,  and  be  fined  not  exceeding- 
live  hundred  dollars,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Court,     for  any  refusal  or  neglecl 

of  the  Commissioners  of  Election  to  perform  any  of  their  duties,  as  prescribed 

in  section  third  of  this  act:  for  any  refusal  or  neglect  of  any  of  the  officers,  or 
of  any  citizen,  to  perform  the  duties  prescribed  in  said  section  third,  in  execu- 
tion of  orders  of  arrest  issued  by  the  Commissioners,  the  person  SO  refusing  or 
neglecting  shall,  on  conviction,  be  imprisoned,  not,  exceeding  three  months, 
and  lined  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Court. 

Sec.  2-1.  Be  Ufurth  etc.,  That  nothing  i  in  this  act  shall  be 

so  construed  to  deprive  the  State  of  Louisiana  of  its  right  of  preference  over  the 
City  of  Carrollton.  for  the  payment  of  taxes  which  may  be  or  become  due  to 
the  State,  on  anv  property  within  the  limits  of  said  City  of  Carrollton,  but  the 
privilege  thereon  hereby  granted  to  the  said  cily  for  the  payment  of  taxes 
authorized  to  be  imposed  by  this  act,  by  said  city.  .-Iiull  take  rank  after  those 
due.  or  to  become  due.  to  the  State  lor  Stat 

Sec.  25.  Beitfurthei  shall  take 

it-  passage.  ■  . 

WM.  Vv.  1TGI1. 
Speaker  of  the  Bouse  of  Represents 
WM.  F.  GRIFFIN, 

President  of  the  Senate. 
Approved  March  1 ,". 

KOBERT  C.  WICK  LI  IT  K. 
rnor  of  the  state  of  Louiai 
A  true  ( 
Andrew  £ 

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RULES   J^ISTJD  REGULATIONS 

tOLT.TON 


,.  1.    The  Council  shall  1   Wednesday,  al  ~ 

o'clock  I'.  M. 

Abt.  2.    At  the  stated  hour  of  the  Council,  the  President  shall 

laid-  the  chair,  and  there  being  a  quorum,  tin- '  !ouncfl  shall  proceed  t<>  but  ii 

Whenever  the  I  !l  deem  i;  .  they  may  adjourn  to 

any  other  day  of  the  week,  and  to  any  other  hour;  and  in  i  h  adjourn- 

ment, it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  notice 

thereof  to  the  members  who  were  no!  present, when  the  bbj  .  ed  for,  ami 

-hall  be  served  i  -aid  members  on  the 

day  immediately  preceding  the  extraordinary  sitiinir. 

President  of  the  Council   Bhall   pres  mm: 

may  Bpeak  to  points  of  order  in  ]  >to  other  members,  rising  for  thai 

order,  subject  to  an   appeal  nncil 

by  any  two  members,  on  which  appeal  there  shall  be  no  discussion;  ami  in  all 
srly  conduct  in  the  hall,  he,  or  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee 
of  the  Whole,  i.:  tared. 

\    ;.  5.     In  c  snce  of  the  M  ,   tinted  by  ballot, 

bya  majo  mg  the  members  present,  a  President  jpro  tempore, 

ami  his  function  in  on  the  rising  of  the  Bitting  for 

which  In1  was  appointed,  or  when  the  President  shall  makeJus  appearance. 

Am.  6.    Tin'  President  mncil  shall   cause  the  proceedings  of  the 

preceding  sitting  tb  be  read,  to  the  cud  that  any  mistake  may  he  corrected 
that  shall  have  been  mad''.     Aft  .' the  journal,  the  order  of  bnsi- 

diall  he  as  follows: 

!.     Communications  from  officers  of  the  corporation  on  public  busin 
*_'.    Petitions. 

:;.    Reports  from  standing  commits 
I.     Repoi .  eial  commit 

.">.     Unfinished  business  of  the  preceding  mei 
P.  7.     The  io  put-   tin'  question,  but  lie  may  -late  ii 

siltin.LT.  The  question  shall  he  put  distinctly  in  the  following  manner:  "  \- 
tnany  pf  yon  as  are  of  the  opinion  that,  (as  the  question  ma; 
and  when  the  votes  have  been  taken  i:;  the  affirmative:  "As  many  of  you  as 
are  of  a  contrary  opinion,  saj  nat."  Should  the  President  have  any  doubt,  or 
should  one  or  more  members  desire  a  division,  that  is,  that  Hie  rotes  he  taken 
by  rising  and  sitting,  the  Council  mall  divide.  Those  members  who  vote  in 
favor  of  the  question  Bhall  rise  first,  and  after  they  are  seated,  those  who 
against  ii.    The  Pre  ;  ill   then  declare  to  the  Council  the  result  of  the 

ion. 
Art.  8.    The  President  Bhall  not  make  any. motion.;  he  shall  w  rt  in 

anj  debate;  nor  shall  he  Lei  i  ohair,  except  when  the  Council  forms  in  the 
Committee  ol  the  Whole;  then,  and  in  al!  cases  of  ballot,  he  shall  he  entitled 
Io  vote;  hut   in  all  other  cases  he  shall   only  have  the  casting  vote. 

Art.  9.  All  the  committees  shall  he  appointed  by  the  Presidett,  unless  other- 
wise ordained  h\  a.  majority  of  the  Council,  when  thej  Bhall  be  appointed  by 
ballot. 

Abt.  1".     Whe  mber  is  about  to  speak,  he  shall  rise  from  his  seal 

and  respectfully  address  himself  to  the  President,  and  Bhall  confine  himself  to 
the  subject  umier  debate,  carefully  avoiding  personality. 

Art.  11.    If  any  member,  in  Bpeaking  or  otb  is  the   nil 

the  Council,  tic-  LI  bim  to  order.    The 

member  thus  called  io  order  Bhall  immediately  si;  down,  unless  he  be  per- 
mitted to  explain,  and  the  Council,  !  .  to,  shall  decide,  but,  without 
debate,  [f  no  appeal!  h  Council,  the  dec  ion  of  the  President 
shall  be  final. 


Art.  12.  Two  or  more  members  rising  at  the  same  time,  the  President  shall 
decide  which  shall  speak  first. 

Art.  13.  No  member  shall  speak  more  than  twice  on  the  same  question 
without  leave  of  the  Council.  No  member  shall  leave  the  Council  chamber 
without  permission:  and  while  a  member  is  making  a  motion,  all  the  Others 
shall  refrain  from  private  conversation,  and  from  passing  across  the  chamber. 

Art.  14.  No  member  shall  vote  on  any  question,  in  the  decision  of  which  he. 
is  immediately  and  particularly  interested,  nor  incase  of  his  not  having  beeb 
present  when  the  question  was  submitted  to  the  Council.  «.■ 

Art.  15.    Every  member  present  in  the  Council  at  the  time  that  any  question-'. 
is  submitted  to  it,  shall  vote  on  said  question,  unless  exempted  from  that  obli- 
gation by  virtue  of  the  preceding  rule. 

Art.  16.  When  a  motion  is  made  and  seconded,  it  shall  be  explained  by  (hi* 
President;  and  at  his.  or  the  requesl  of  any  member,  it  shall  be  committed  tyS 
writing  by  the  mover,  and  Bhall  be  delivered  to  the  Secretary,  who  shall  read* 
it  distinctly  and  in  an  audible  voice,  previously  to  its  being  debated 

Art.  IT.  When  a  motion  has  been  explained  bj  the  President  or  read  by 
the  Secretary,  it  shall  lie  considered  as  being  before  the  Council,  but  it  may  be 
withdrawn  at  any  time  before  a  decision  or  an  amendment. 

Art.  is  When  a  question  is  under  debate,  no  motion  shall  be  ret  eived,  but 
to  adjourn,  to  lay  on  the  (aide,  to  postpone  indefinitely,  postpone  to  a  certain 
day.  to  commit  or  amend,  which  several  motions  shall  have  precedence  in  the 
order  they  are  arranged,  and  the  motion  for  adjournment  shall  always  be  in  or- 
der and  decided  without  debate. 

Art.  19.  Every  member  has  the  right  to  call  for  a  division  of  the  question, 
when  it  is  susceptible  of  being  divided. 

A::t.  20.  While  a  motion  to  commit  is  under  consideration,  no  amendment 
can  be  proposed  on  the  principal  question. 

Art.  21.  When  a  motion  has  been  once  made  and  derided,  it  shall  be  in 
order  for  any  member  who  had  voted  with  the  majority,  to  make,  during  the 
session,  or  at  the  next  meeting  at  latest,  a  motion  to  reconsider;  such  motion 
shall  be  seconded  be. ore  putting  the  question,  and  shall  be  considered  as  carried, 
when  voted  for  by  a  majority  of  the  members  present. 

Ai;t.  22.  Whenever  any  member  calls  for  the  reading  of  any  document, 
and  the  reading  of  the  same  is  opposed,  the  Council  shall  decide  whether  said, 
document  shall  be  read. 

Art.  23.  Whenever  the  Council  is  about  to  deliberate  on  matters,  that,  in 
its  opinion,  should  be  secret,  all  persons  shall  be  requested  to  withdraw,  nor 
shall  any  person  be  admitted  during  the  discussion  or  reading  of  such  matter, 
unless  a  majority  of  the  Council  shall  otherwise  ordain. 

Art.  24.  Every  member  may  decline  serving  on  a  committee  immediately  on 
his  being  proposed,  if  he  is  then  a  member  of  two  other  commit; 

Art.  25.  The  report  of  a  committee  must  be  signed  by  a  majority  of  its 
members,  but  the  minority  may  also  report. 

Art.  26.  No  motion  calling  for  the  yeas  and  nays  shall  be  received,  unless 
made  and  seconded  after  the  entire  decision  of  the  question,  and  at  the  same 
sitting. 

Art.  27.  There  shall  be  appointed  in  the  month  of  October  of  each  year  two 
standing  committees  of  four  members  each,  viz.:  1.  Committee  on  Finance  and 
Claims;  2.  Committee  on  Streets  and  Landings:  which  committees  shall  be 
changed  as  often  as  the  Council  shall  determine. 

Art.  28.  The  Committee  on  Finance  and  claims  shall  take  into  considera- 
tion the  reports  and  accounts  of  the  Comptroller  and  Treasurer,  and  all  mat- 
ters connected  with  the  revenue,  expenditure  or  public  debts  of  the  corpo- 
ration that  may  be  referred  to  them  uncD, and  particularly  into  the 
appropriations  of  monies,  and  to  report  whether  the  monies  have  boon  dis- 
bursed in  conformity  with  the  ordinances,  and  shall  also,  From  time  to  time. 
est  to  the  Council  the  best  means  to  promote  the  ■  i  the  ad- 
ministration, and  the  accountability  of  the  officers  of  the  corporation.  Thej 
shall  also  take  into    consideration    all  petitions,  or   other   papers  relative  to 


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claims  or  demands  against  the  corporation.  as  they  may  be  presented  to  the 
Council,  and  said  committee  dial]  report  to  the  Council  their  opinions  there- 
on, with  such  proposals  as  may  appear  to  them  to  be  proper. 

Aut.  '2'.'.  The  Committee  on  Streets,  Landings  and  Police  shall  be  charged 
with  the  consideration  of  all  subjects  connected  with  the  poring,  opening  or 
widening  the  streets,  and  in  any  manner  tending  to  their  improvement;  also, 
with  all  matters  connected  •with  the  Improvement  of  the  port,  and  shall  re- 
port therein!  to  the  Council.  All  communications  and  reports  from  the  Street 
t  tommissi tries  and  Surveyor  shall  be  referred  to  this  committee;  and  all  ac- 
counts of  expenditures  made  for  paving,  opening,  widening,  or  otherwise 
improving  the  streets,  or  for  the  improvement  of  the  port,  mast  be  examined 
and  certified  to  by  this  committee;  and  they  shall  .be  charged  with  all  matters 
in  relation  to  the  police. 
/  Akt.  o0.  No  resolution,  regulation,  or  ordinance  shall  be  adopted  by  the 
Council,  until  a  bill  for  the  same  shall  have  undergone  at  least  two  readings 
at  two  different  sittings,  between  which  there  shall  be  an  interval  of  at  least 
three  days. 

Aut.  31.    At  all  elections  of  officers  of  the  city  there  shall  be  a  previous 
notice  given  at  least  one  week  before  the  election. 

Akt.  32.    All  mattors'within  the  competency  of  the  Council  may  he  debated 
in  the  exraordinary  sittings    regularly  convened. 

Akt.  ::.;.     Two-thirds  of  the  members  present  may  at  any  time  suspend  these 
rule-;  but  they  shall  not  be  repealed,  or  altered,  unless  by  a  majority  of  all 

the  members  elected,  and  after  one  week's  previous  notice. 

vVAi.i'.  :U.     The  Mayor  shall  specially  convene  the  Council  whenever,  in  his 

liilion,  the  public    interest    may   require  it.  or   upon    the  written  request    of 

two  of  the  members  thereof,  they  stating  their  reasons    for  such   request      In 

BUCh   a  case,  the  Mayor  shall    direct  the  Secret  try  to  give  a  written  notice  of 

!i  meeting  to  each  member  at    least    twenty-four  hours  previous    thereto. 

except  in  case  of  great  emergency,  when  the  Mayor  may  convene  the  Council 

forthwith)  by  giving  each  member  verbal  notice  to  that  effect.     And  in   case 

of  absence    or   inability  or    refusal  of  the    Mayor   when  a  called   meeting  is 

necessary,  the  Secretary  shall  convene  the  Council  at  the  written   request  of 

three  members  of  the  Council. 


ORDINANCES,  RESOLUTIONS,  AND  PERMANENT  ORDERS. 

ANIMALS. 

AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  HOGS  RUNNING  AT  LARGE. 

Adopted  November  19,  1845. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Commissary, 
after  ten  days'  public  notice,  to  shoot  down  all  hogs  that  may  be 
found  running  at  large  in  the  city:  the  hogs  shot  to  be  sold  for  the 
use  of  the  city  by  the  Commissary,  after  three  hours'  public  notice; 
provided,  the  owner  does  not  claim  the  property  and  pay  one 
dollar  fine. 


AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  DOGS. 

Adopted  July  29,  1846. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  the  Commissary  be  and  he  is  hereby 
required  to  procure  at  the  expense  of  the  city,  such  quantities  of 
poisoned  sausages,  from  time  to  time,  as  may  be  required  for  the 
purpose  of  destroying  all  dogs  found  running  at  large  without 
good  and  sufficient  muzzles. 

Art.  2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  this  ordinance  shall  be  in  full 
force  from  the  30th  day  of  May  of  the  present  year,  until  the  1st  day 
of  October,  and  from  the  1st  day  of  Ma}T  to  the  1st  day  of  October  of 
each  subsequent  year,  aud  at  all  times  when  the  Council  may 
deem  it  necessary. 


AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  ANIMALS  TURNED  OUT  TO  GRAZE. 

Adopted  February  10,  1841. 

Art.  1.  Beit  Ordained,  That  all  cattle,  horses  and  mules  belonging 
to  residents  of  this  city,  which  they  may  turn  out  to  graze,  shall 
be  branded  on  the  right  thigh  with  the  cattle  brand  of  this 
corporation. 

Art.  2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Commissary  to  brand  all  cattle  belonging  to  residents  of  this  city 
that  may  be  brought  to  him  for  that  purpose,  for  which  he  may 
charge  ten  cents  for  each  head  as  a  compensation. 

Art.  :j.  J'f  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Commissary  to  give  notice  that  he  will,  between  the  hoars  of  12 
and  1  o'clock,  on  some  day  of  each  week,  brand  all  cattle  which 
may  be  brought  to  some  convenient  place  within  the  limits  of  the 
city,  to  be  by  him  designated. 


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Art.  4.  Be.  if  further  Ordained,  That  it  eliall  be  the  duty  01  the 
Commissary,  and  the  right  of  any  person,  to  take  up  and  impound 
all  or  any  cattle  found  at  Large  within  t lie  limits  of  this  city,  which 
may  not  be  marked  with  the  brand  bf  this  corporation;  and  the 
same  shall  be  considered  as  stray  cattle,  to  be  dealt  with  accord- 
ingly. 

Art.  5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  hogs  are  unconditionally 
prohibited  from  being  at  large  within  the  limits  of  this  city,  and 
it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  01  the  Commissary,  and  the  right  of 
any  citizen  to  impound  the  same  as  strays. 

Thai  the  Commissary  is  authorized,  and  he  is  hereby 
required  to  procure  at  the  expense  of  the  city  a  cattle  brand,  to 
mars  an  lal  letter  C,  of  three   inches   in  diameter,   with  a 

perpendicular  line  joining  the  top  and  bottom  of  said  letter;  the  said 
brand  to  be  called  the  "Cattle  brand  of  the  city  of  Carrollto 


ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  ANIMALS  OF  TIIE  PARISH  OF  JEFFERSON, 

LEFT  BANK. 

Adopted  August  24,  1859. 

'i  Ordained,  c)-c,  That  the  cattle  and  other  animals  enumerated 
in  the  ordinances  of  this  city  relative  to  strays,  and  belonging  to 
the  of  that  portion  of  the  parish  of  Jefferson  under  the 

Police  Jury  of  the  Left  Bank,  be,  and  the  same  are  allowed  to 
graze  and  pasture  within  the  limits  of  this  city  without  being 
subjected  to  be  impounded:  provided,  that  all  such  animals  be 
previously  branded  with  the  brand  established  by  said  Police  Jury, 
and  known  by  the  letters  P.  J.;  and  provided  that  the  cattle  and 
other  animals  of  the  residents  of  this  city,  branded  with  the  city 
brand  C,  shall  be  allowed  to  graze  within  the  limits  of  the  juris- 
diction of  said  Police  Jury  for  the  Left  Bank  without  being  subject 
to  be  impounded. 


AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  GOATS. 

Adopted  December  10,  1851. 

Be  it  Ordained,  That  ten  days  after  the  passage  of  this  ordinance, 
it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  goat  to  run  at  large  within  the  limits 
of  this  city;  and  il  is  hereby  made  the  right  of  any  citizen,  and 

the  duty  of  the  Commissary,  to  take  up  and  impound  any  goat 
found  at  large  after  {hat  time;  and  when  impounded  they  shall  be 
subject  to  the  same  charges  as  hogs,  and  the  Pound  Keeper  is 
hereby  authorized  to  proceed  with  them  as  with  other  animals 
in  advertising  and  selling. 


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ASSESSOR. 

AN    ORDINANCE    PROVIDING   FOR    THE    MAKING    OP  A  BOOK  OF 

PLANS.    &c. 

Adopted  December  10,  1845. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  the  sketch  of  a  plan  for  making  an 
exhibit  of  the  property  in  this  cityin  a  book  submitted  by  the 
Principal  Assessor  be  adopted,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said 
Principal  Assessor  to  draw  a  sketch  or  plan  of  each  and  every 
square  of  ground. (with  the  suit-divisions  [so  far  as  practicable] 
thereof  marked)  in  this  city,  in  a  book  provided  for  that  purpose. 
Each  square  to  be  drawn  on  a  Beparate  page,  and  to  have  the  names 
of  the  owner  or  owners  thereof  placed  on  the  same  page  with  the 
sketch,  with  the  portion  belonging  to  each  set  opposite  to  the  name; 
said  book  to  be  denominated  "Book  of  Plans,  &c,  of  Carrollton,  La." 

Art.  2,.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Principal  Assessor  from  year  to  year  to  continue  the  entries  in  said 
"Book  of  Plans,  &c,"  and  to  perpetuate  the  same  according  to  the 
best  of  his  abilities. 


ATTORNEY. 

AN  ORDINANCE   DEFINING  THE  DUTIES   OF  THE  CITY  ATTORNEY. 

Adopted  June  12,  1861. 

Be  it  Ordained,  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  City  of  Carrollton, 
That  the  Attorney  shall  be  the  legal  adviser  of  the  Mayor  and 
Council,  and  of  any  officer  of  the  city,  upon  all  matters  which  may 
be  submitted  to  him  for  his  opinion,  and  when  requested  shall  give 
his  opinion  in  writing,  with  as  little  delay  as  possible. 

2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said 
Attorney  to  represent  the  corporation  in  all  judicial  proceedings, 
suits,  actions  or  contestations  in  which  the  city  may  have  an 
interest;  he  shall  prosecute  and  defend  all  actions  which  may  be 
brought  by  or  against  the  city  or  any  officer  thereof,  for  and  by 
reason  of  any  matter  or  duty  connected  with  or  growing  out  of 
their  respective  offices,  or  in  which  the  corporation  is  interested  in 
any  court  in  this  State;  and  shall  institute  all  suits  against  de- 
faulting tax  payers  in  the  manner  and  time  and  with  the  formalities 
required  by  law,  all  suits  for  the  recovery  of  license-tax  or  other 
dues  immediately  after  receiving  tin-  bill  or  claim  from  the  proper 
officer;  and  all  suits  for  the  violation  of  any  ordinance  or  section 
of  the  charter  of  the  city,  upon  the  complaint  of  any  officer  of  the 
city,  or  direction  of  the  Mayor  and  Council. 


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3.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  Attor- 
ney to  examine,  previous  to  being  executed,  all  leases,  contracts, 
accounts,  titles  or  bonds  to  be  made  by  or  for  the  corporation,  and 
shall  require  that  the  interest  of  the  city  be  protected  therein  by 
proper  and  fitting  conditions  and  specifications;  aud  when  required 
by  the  Mayor  and  Council  or  any  officer  of  the  city,  shall  prepare 
any  bond,  contract  or  other  document  required;  be  shall  examine 
all  bills  for  costs  which  the  corporation  has  been  condemned  to 
pay  by  the  several  courts,  and  when  made  according  to  law,  to 
approve  the  same;  and  he  shall  draft  such  ordinances  or  resolutions 
as  may  be  required  of  him  by  the  Mayor  and.  Council,  or  any 
committee  thereof. 

4.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said 
Attorney  to  keep  in  proper  books,  paged  and  indexed,  a  record  of 
all  suits  for  or  against  the  city,  and  all  actions  prosecuted  or 
defended  by  him,  and  all  proceedings  had  therein;  his  record  must 
be  written  up  within  three  days  after  proceedings  had  in  any  suit 
or  action,  and  his  books  shall  be  open  at  all  times  to  the  inspection 
of  the  Mayor  and  Councilmen,  and  to  the  Comptroller;  and  he  shall 
make  a  monthly  report  to  the  Mayor  aud  Council  of  the  condition 
of  business  entrusted  to  his  care,  and  a  special  report  forthwith, 
whenever  a  judgment  is  given  against  the  corporation.  He  shall 
also  furnish  a  certified  or  transcript  copy  of  such  decisions  as  the 
Supreme  Court  may  render  for  or  against  the  city. 

5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  said  Attorney  shall,  immedi- 
ately upon  the  recovery  of  any  debt  due  the  corporation,  forthwith 
pay  the  amount  thereof  into  the  city  treasury,  stating  the  nature 
of  the  debt,  the  person  against  whom,  and  the  amount  and  time  of 
recovery;  he  shall  take  the  Treasurer's  receipt  therefor,  and  forth- 
with file  the  same  with  the  Comptroller,  to  be  entered  in  his  books. 

Art.  6.  Be  it  further  Ordained;  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said 
Attorney,  upon  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  office,  or  resignation 
thereof,  or  removal  therefrom,  to  report  forthwith  to  the  Mayor  and 
Council  the  titles,  nature  and  amounts  in  detail,  of  all  suits  and 
actions  in  his  hands  prosecuted  and  defended  by  him,  and  then 
pending  ami  undetermined,  which  report  shall,  if  possible,  be  certi- 
fied correct  by  the  judge  or  clerk  of  the  court  in  which  the  suits 
are  pending. 

Adopted  July  29,  1857. 

Resolved,  That  the  Attorney  be  required  to  keep  his  register  in 
the  Treasurer's  Office  of  the  City  of  Carrollton. 

Adopted  August  21,  1861.    . 

Resolved,  That  the  Attorney  is  directed  to  take  the  necessary  steps 
to  secure  the  costs  in  all  criminal  cases  hereafter  brought  in  the 
several  courts  of  this  parish. 

A  RESOLUTION  CONCERNING  BILLS  TO  BE  SUED. 

Adopted  March  19,  1851. 
Be  it   Resolved,  That  hereafter,  when  bills  or  claims  of  this 


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corporation  are  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  Attorney  for  collection, 
a  detailed  account  of  them  shall  be  filed  with  the  Comptroller,  who 
shall  charge  them  to  the  Attorney,  and  when  collected  and  returned, 
credit  him  with  the  amount. 

AWNINGS. 

AN    ORDINANCE    TO    REGULATE    AND    TO    AUTHORIZE   THE   CON- 
STRUCTION OF  AWNINGS  OVER  THE  SIDEWALKS. 

Adopted  May  29,  1850. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  any  person  may  erect  over  tin1  side- 
walk in  front  of  his  property,  a  canvas  or  permanent  awning,  at 
right  angles  with  the  front  lines  thereof,  upon  his  obtaining  a 
certificate  from  the  Surveyor,  that  the  lines  for  the  same  have  been 
designated  and  marked;  and  the  Surveyor  is  hereby  authorized  to 
charge  and  receive  one  dollar  for  the  same. 

Art.  2  fie  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  awning  posts  hereafter 
erected,  shall  not  be  more  nor  less  than  nine  feet  high  above  the 
top  of  the  curb,  and  that  the  top  rail  shall  be  even  with  the  top  of 
the  post,  the  post  shall  not  be  less  than  five  nor  more  than  six  inches 
square.* 

Art.  3.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  awning  posts  shall  be 
placed  close  to  the  banquette  side  of  the  curb,  plank  or  stone;  and 
where  foot  planks  arc  laid,  the  same  shall  be  neatly  fitted  thereto, 
and  an  additional  plank  of  at  least  twelve  inches  in  width  shall  be 
laid  on  the  inside,  by  any  person  who  may  erect  an  awning. 

Akt.  4.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  fixed  seats  shall  not  be 
placed  against  any  awning  post,  nor  any  other  obstruction  allowed 
on  the  sidewalks  of  this  city. 

Art  5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  a  fine  of  ten  dollars  shall  be, 
and  the  same  is  hereby  imposed  upon  any  person  contravening  this 
ordinance,  to  be  recovered  before  any  competent  court,  for  the  use 
of  the  city;  and  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  Surveyor  and 
Commissaries  of  Streets  to  see  this  ordinance  enforced,  and 
remove  any  awning  erected  contrary  to  the  provisions  hereof. 

♦The  remainder  of  the  original  Article,  from  the  word  "Square,"  was  repealed  September  10, 1860. 


AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  AWNING  POSTS. 

Adopted  November  27,  1850. 

Be  it  Ordained,  That  hereafter   no   awning  post  shall  be  placed 
nearer  the  corners  of  the  banquettes  in  this  city  than  five  feet. 


1C 

It   VI, I. K. 

ORDINAL  0    BALLS,    [NOLUDING    BOB 

Ql  I  NDMENT. 

Adopted  May  81,  L845. 
ad  after  the  p  F  this 

ordinance,  it  shall  nol  be  lawful  foranypers  m  or  pen  ..•  a 

public,  subscripti  siety  ball  within  the  limits  of  this  city, 

without  first  having  obtained  permission  in  writing  from  tl 
nnder  penalty  of  B  fine  of  nol  less  than  ten  dollars,  nor  more  than 

twenty  d  r  each  contravt  rable  before  any  conrl 

of  competenl  jurisdiction^  for  tfa 

_'.     Be  it  furl  Thai   for  i   thus 

delivered,  there  Bhall  be  paid  the  1 

relative  to  the  price  of  lip  I 

i  shall  be  paid 
to  the  City  Treasurer,  and  no  permission  shall   be  I   by  the 

ill  ih"   production   to  him  of  the  Treas- 
ure r"s  receipj  for  said  tax. 

Art.  t.     /;■  ?'  furth     [  I  >rder  mu  I 

and  it  shall  he  the  duty  -  1'  the  I 

that  the  ived,   and  that  no  ball  ,  without 

permission  aforesaid:  am!  i  any  infraction  of  this  ordinal 

or  disorderly  conduct,  the   '  may  withdraw  his  permission, 

and  prohibit  the  continuance  of  the  same,  or  enforce  the  penalty 
for  the  contravention  of  the  firsl  article  of  this  ordinal 

Article  ■'.  ;■  ■  \. 


RESOLUTION    AUTHORIZING     THE    SALE    OF     LIQUORS,    a.,     at 
PUBLIC   BALLS, 

Adopted  February  10,  L85  . 

Resolv,*/,   That    i"  iving  public  halls    in   this  city,   and 

paying  a  license  therefor,  be  and  are  hereby  authorized  to  retail 
liquors  and  other  refreshments  to  persons  attending  said  halls, 

during  the  time  of  the  ball,  and   in  the  house  where  the  hall    takes 
without  paying  any   other  license   than    the    license    for    the 
hall,  any  ordinance  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding. 


BANQUETTES. 
\\  ORDINANCE  FIXING  Till-:  WIDTH  OP  BANQUETTES. 

Adopted  December  l,  184T. 
Art.  1.     B    '  0  davned,  Thai  all  banquettes  within  the  limits  of 

this  city,  not  otherwise  specified,  shall  he  of  the  width  following, 

to-wit:  On  all  streets  of  sixty-lour  feet  and  over  in  width,  twelve 
feet;  on  all  streets  of  fifty-four  feet  and  over  in  width,  ten  feet; 
on  all  streets  of  forty-eight  feet  and  over  in  width,  nine  feet. 


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AN  ORDINANCE   FIXING   THE  WIDTII   OF   BANQUETTES   ON  CANAL 

AVENUE. 

Adopted  March  21,  1853. 

Be  it   Ordained,   That  the  sidewalks   or  banquettes   on   Canal 
Avenue  shall  be  fifteen  feet  wide. 


AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  THE  CONSTRUCTION  OF  BANQUETTES. 

Adopted  October  3,  1849. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  whenever  one-third  of  the  owners 
of  property,  and  a  majority  of  the  residents  thereon,  on  any  side 
of  any  street,  shall  petition  to  have  a  paved  banquette  made  on 
their  side  of  the  street,  according  to  either  of  the  modes  described 
in  this  ordinance,  the  same  shall  be  ordered  to  be  made  as  far  as 
the  end  of  each  square  in  which  any  of  the  petitioners  may  own 
property.  Banquettes  shall  also  be  ordered  to  be  made  wherever 
the  Council  may  deem  that  the  convenience  of  iho  public  may 
require  them;  *  and  permission  is  hereby  granted  to  any  person  or 
persons  individually,  to  make  a  paved  banquette  in  front  of  their 
property,  provided,  the  same  be  made  in  accordance  with  the  require- 
ments of  this  ordinance,  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Surveyor. 

Art.  2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  tops  of  the  curbs  of  all 
banquettes  on  the  streets  running-  back  from  the  river,  within  the 
limits  of  this  city,  shall  be  laid  on  the  level  of  the  grades  adopted 
by  this  Council,  and  the  gutters  on  the  cross  streets  shall  rise  from 
each  corner  toward  the  center  of  the  square  at  the  rate  of  one 
inch  in  twenty-five  feet,  and  the  banquettes  or  sidewalks  shall  rise 
from  the  curb  toward  the  side  of  the  street  at  the  rate  of  one-half 
inch  to  the  foot;  the  depth  of  the  gutters  below  t  lie  top  of  the  curb  at 
the  corner  of  Levee  street  sliall  betcn  inches,  which  shall  be  increased 
one  inch  for  every  six.  hundred  and  fifty  feet  toward  the  swamp. 

Art.  3.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  paved  banquettes  or  side- 
walks within  the  limits  of  this  city  shall  be  either  of  good  flag 
stone,  or  lake  paving  brick,  supported  by  *     irb  stone, 

or  by  a  good  brick  curb  wall  with  a  top  plank  at  1<  as1  three  inches 
by  ten  inches,  and  a  o  itter  timber,  at  least  three 

inches  thick,  and  six  inches  wide,  laid  flat-wise  and  well  secured, 
and  nailed  to  stakes  driven  down  al 

Art.  4.  Be  it  further  On  ha1  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of 

the   Surveyor   to  give  the  lines  and  !!    banquettes  and 

gutters  to  be  made  under  this  ordinance,  without  delay;    also,   to 
see  the  same  done  according  to  the  pn 

and  upon  his  approval  of  any  work   coi  ive  the  con- 

tractor his  certificate  to  thai  efl 

Art.  r>.     Beit  further  Ordaii  ne-half  fof  the  whole  costof 

any  banquette  made  under  this  ordinance,  excepting  thai  portion 


1- 

at  ti  .  walks,  shall 

be  reimbursed  to  the  city  by  t!  ■  I  rtiea  in  front 

of  trhicfa  ill  bave  b<  i  □  made;  and  the  said  cost  shall 

sollectable .  on  the  rc«<-i  j  >t  by  the  Comptroller  of  the 

ili.ii  the  work  baa  been  duly  completed. 

further   Ordained,  Thai   all   plank    banquet! 

I  within  the  limits  of  this  city  shall 

be  made  in  the  following  manner:   They  shall  c 

placed  side  by  aide,  nol  lesa  than  two  feet  from  the  d  I  gut- 

.  laid  clear  of  the  ground,  and  BUpported  on  blocks  or  sills,  and 

firmly  nailed  to  the  Bame.    The  planks  shall  be  laid  to  a  uniform 

level  through  each  square,  which  level  shall  be  obtained  on  rising 

ind,  by  sinking  the  Cross  blocks  below  the  Burface,  or  by  cut- 

ing  through  the  ridge  as  may  I  ind  on  falling  ground, 

by  placing  the  blocks  one  upon  an  ither  to  the  required  height;  on 

i  ground  of  a  proper  heigh  1  one  block  onlytobeused,  imbeded 

in  the  surface.    These  blocks  shall  be  secured  by  Btakes  driven  at 

each  end  firmly  into  the  ground,  and  naili  h  block* 

mi  .tliiT  change*  mmli'  in  tlio  let,  3d 
;iU'l  M!i  nrt:rli  -.  Mfpflng  tin  in  U 


AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  THE  BEPAIB  OF  BANQUETTES. 

lopted  May  28,  1861, 

l  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  City  of  Carrottton* 
That  whenever  it  becomes  accessary  to  repair  any  of  the  paved  or 
planked  sidewalks  <  I  this  city,  made  according  to  law,  it  shall  be 
and  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  Commissary  to  notify  the  o*  aer 
of  the  property  fronting  such  places  to  repair  the  same  in  such 
manner  as  he,  the  Commissary,  shall  designate  in  bis  notice,  within 
ten  days  alter  notice,  the  fact  and  date  of  service  of  such  notice 
shall  be  duly  recorded  in  his  diary,  and  in  cases  of  doubt,  he  shall 
consull  the  and    Landings  Committee,  and  follow  their 

directions  in  the  premises. 

( Ji-flninrti,  That  whenever  the  froril  owner,  nol 
in  accordance  with  article  l  of  this  ordinance,  shall  and  does  repair 

any  of  the    paved  or    planked    sidewalks  in    the  manner   and    time 

required  by  the  Commissary,  the  Mayor  and  Council  Bhal]  and  will 
reimburse  the  oneJjalf  of  the  cost  to  such  owner,  on  presentation 
of  a  bill  for  the  amount  approved  by  the  Commissary. 

/;.  -'  ftnth.r  Ordained,  That  for  refusing  or  neglecting  to  comply 

with   the   directions   of  the    Commissary  when    duly  and    properly 

notified  as  aforesaid,  the  fronl  owner  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of 
$10  for  each  offence;  andfor  oeglecl  to  notify  the  front  owners 
when  repairs  art  iry,  the  Commissary  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine 

Of  ^10  for  each  oiTenee. 


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HATTURE. 

RESOLUTION    CONCERNING    BATTURE    LOTS. 

Adopted  October  7,  1846, 

Resolved,  That  the  taxes  on  the  batture  lots  yet  unpaid  be  and 
the  same  are  hereby  cancelled,  and  that  hereafter  no  batture  lots 
shall  be  assessed;  provided,  that  the  buildings  and  other  improve- 
ments now  on  the  batture  by  suffrancc  of  the  Council,  be  assessed 
and  taxed  according  to  their  value. 


BRIDGES. 

AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  THE  STREETS,  DITCHES  AND  BRIDGES. 

Adopted  June  10,  1840. 

•     Article  1  and  article  2  are  obsolete. 

Art.  3.  Beit  further  Ordained,  That  all  bridges  shall  be  at  Least 
twenty  inches  wide  and  nine  inches  deep,  clear  water  way,  made  in 
a  good  and  substantial  manner,  so  as  to  prevent  the  sides  from 
being  pressed  in.  The  top  shall  be  of  good  cypress  or  pine  plank, 
at  least  two  inches  thick,  and  shall  be  supported  by  a  cross  piece 
at  least  every  three  and  a  half  feet ;  said  bridges  shall  be  extended 
across  each  street  or  road  to  within  two  feet  of  the  banquette. 


RESOLUTION  CONCERNING   THE  SIZE,  &c.,    OF    BRIDGES  ON  CANAL 

AVENUE. 

Adopted  Novembe'r  i.  1.846. 

Resolved,  That  the  bridges  on  the  two  centre  ditches  on  Canal 
Avenue  shall  Vie  made  of  good  white  pine  or  cypress,  at  least  three 
feet  wide,  and  fourteen  inches  deep,  clear  water  way;  they  shall 
be  at  Least  thii  ty  feel  long;   the  Bides  and  tops  to  1  ist  two 

inches  thick,  and  the  latter  to  be  supported  by  <    three 

inches  thick  every  three  feet;  the  whole  to  be  well  made  and  put 
down  by  the  level  to  be  given  by  the  Surveyor. 


AN  ORDINAL 

ted  Oct  347. 

Art.  l.     Bti    '  ', 'fh.it  hereafter  all* bri 

of  tin's  city  shall  be  repaired  with  and  mad      f  i,  pine 

or  cedar  lumber. 


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A  RESOLUTION  CONCERNING  BRIDGE  TIMBER. 

Adopted  February  12,  1851. 

Be  it  Resolved,  That  the  Surveyor  be  and  lie  is  hereby  ordered 
to  receive  nothing  but  good  sound  limber  for  any  bridges  to  be 
made  in  this  citv. 


BUILDINGS     .AJVD     FENCES. 

AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  BUILDINGS,  AND  FENCES. 

Adopted  August  7,  1861. 

Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  City  of  Carrollton, 
That  no  building  shall  be  erected  within  the  limits  of  this  city 
until  the  ground  to  be  covered  by  the  building  be  raised  to  a  level 
with  the  established  grade  of  the  sidewalk,  the  lines  and  level  to 
be  obtained  from  the  Surveyor.  All  persona  violating  this  article 
shall  be  fined  not  less  than  $25,  and  $10  a  month  until  the  ground 
so  occupied  be  filled  as  herein  required. 

2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  no  person  shall  erect,  rebuild  or 
enlarge  any  building  or  wall  fronting  on  any  street  or  public  way 
without  first  obtaining  the  lines  thereof  from,  the  City  Surveyor 
under  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  $25  for  every  offence,  and  $5  for 
each  day  said  works  may  be  continued  after  notice  from  the  Com- 
missary. 

3.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  persons  arc  forbidden  to 
construct,  or  cause  to  be  constructed,  any  gallery  or  verandah 
projecting  in  front  of  their  building  over  the  sidewalk  at  a  less 
distance  than  10  feet  above  the  sidewalk.  All  persons  are  forbidden 
to  extend  the  steps  in  front  of  their  building  more  than  24  inches 
on  the  sidewalk.  All  persons  are  forbidden  to  construct  any  door 
or  window  projecting  more  than  12  inches  on  the  sidewalk  in  front 
of  their  building.  All  persons  are  required  to  hook  or  otherwise 
secure  the  shutters  of  the  doors  and  windows  of  their  buildiugs 
that  open  on  the  street,  so  as  to  prevent  accidents,  and  not  to 
obstruct  the  passage  on  the  sidewalk.  Every  person  who  violates 
the  provisions  of  this  article  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  $10  for  each 
offence,  and  $5  for  every  day  the  offence  shall  continue  after  notice. 

4.  Be  it  farther  Ordained,  That  the  roof  of  every  building  fronting 
the  street  shall  be  provided  by  the  owner  with  gutters  and  leaders 
to  collect  and  convey  the  rain  water  so  as  to  prevent  its  falling  on 
and  running  over  the  sidewalk,  and  any  person  who  violates  this 
article  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  $10  for  each  offence,  and  $5  for 
every  day  the  offence  continues  after  notice. 

5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Sur- 
veyor, the  Commissary  and  all  police  officers  to  inquire  concerning 
all  houses  or  other  buildings  that  may  be  in  a  ruinous  condition;  as 


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also  about  whatever  might,  by  falling,  impair  the  security  of  pas- 
sage through  the  public  way,  or  give  occasion  to  any  accident,  and 
report  the  same  to  the  Mayor  and  Council  forthwith. 

6.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  in  all  cases  where  banquettes  or 
sidewalks  are  paved  in  front  of  any  lot  or  lots  of  ground  in  this 
city,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  owner  or  owners  of^such  lots  to 
cause  the  same  to  be  fenced  with  good  substantial  pickets  or  plank 
fences,  so  as  to  protect  said  sidewalk.  The  Commissary  shall 
notify  the  owner  ov  agent,  in  writing,  tQ  comply  with  the  provisions 
of  this  article  within  ten  days  after  notice,  and  for  neglecting  to 
Comply  with  said  notice,  the  owner  or  agent  shall  be  fined  $10, 
and  $10  additional,  for  eveiy  subsequent  ten  days'  neglect  to  comply, 
until  the  fence  is  made  cither  by  the  owner  or  the  Council  at  his 
expense,  and  all  damage  to  the  pavement  caused  by  such  neglect 
shall  be  repaired  at  the  expense  of  the  said  owner. 

7.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  partition  fences  made  in  the 
manner  -herein  below  set  forth,  shall  be  considered  legal  fences 
when  placed  on  the  line  which  separates  contiguous  estates,  and 
for  which  the  adjoining  proprietors  may  be  liable  under  article 
682  of  the  Civil  Code  of  "this  State,  to-wit: 

1.  All  substantial  fences  at  least  7  feet  high  above  the  estab- 
lished grade  of  the  city,  made  of  sound  new  cypress  pickets  placed 
upright  close  together,  and  sunk  in  the  ground  at  least  eighteen 
inches  below  the  grade,  well  nailed  to  a  1|  inch  cross  strip,  and 
pointed. 

2.  All  substantial  fences  at  least  7  feet  high  above  the  grade, 
made  of  new  sound  cypress  pickets,  pr  cypress  or  pine  inch  planks 
placed  close  together  upright  from  the  ground,  or  a  strong  base 
plank,  and  well  nailed  on  to  a  frame  made  of  sound  new  cypress, 
cedar  or  pine  posts  sunk  into  the  ground  at  least  30  inches  below 
the  grade,  with  a  top  and  bottom  pine  or  cypress  strip  two  inches 
thick,  of  new  and  sound  luafber.        , 

3.  All  fences  made  in  accordance  with  an  agreement  or  under- 
standing between  the  parties  interested. 

8.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  necessity  for  rebuilding,  and 
the  necessity  for  and  manner  of  repairing  a  fence  held  in  common 
when  the  proprietors  cannot  agree,  shall  be  determined  by  a  jury 
of  three  resident  freeholders,  summoned  and  sworn  by  the  Judge 
having  jurisdiction,  at  the  request  of  one  or  both  the  proprietors 
interested.  The  decision  of  the  jury  shall  be  binding,  and  the 
party  who  refuses  and  neglects  to  abide  by  and  comply  with  the 
decision  of  said  jury  shall  be  fined  $2.3,  and  $5  additional  for  every 
week  he  so  neglects  to  comply,  and  shall  pay  all  damages  caused 
by  his  neglect. 


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x  C    ARTS,     DRAYS,    &c. 

AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  CABTS,  DBAYB,  A.-. 

Adopted  May  21,  1845. 

Art.  1.  Bj  it  (hernial.  That  no  person  shall  cause  in  run  within 
the  limits  o^^(r«lrriy  of  Caxrplltori,  any  coach  gig,  hackney  coach, 
cart,  dray, "timber  carriage,  or  other  carriage  to  I"1  let  for  hire  for 
the  transportation  of  persons;,  produce,  effects,  merchandise  or  other 

objects  whatever,  unless  he  has  obtained  :i  license  lor  each  of  the 
above  said  vehicles;  and  that  any  person  running  a  dray,  cart, 
wagon,  or  other  vehicle  herein  designated;  in  violation  of  this 
ordinance,  shall  be  liable  to  pay  a  tine  of  slu  f. .1-  gaoh  ami  every 
contravention,  to  be  sued  for  and  recovered  before  any  court  6f 
competent  jurisdiction. 

Art.  2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  Mayor  shall  cause  to  be 
inscribed,  in  a  book  kept  for  that  purpose,  the  names  ami  christian 
names  of  each  proprietor  of  vehicles  above  designated,  the  pi 
of  his  residence,  number  of  £ach  license  which  shall  he  delivered, 
and  the  designation  of  each  species  of  vehicles  for- which  the  said 
license  shall  be  delivered. 

Art.  3.      Be  it    further  Ordaiwd,  That    the   drays,    carls,  wagons, 

carriages,  &c.,  designated  in  this  ordinance,  must  have  the  number 

of  tin  ir  respective  licenses  painted  on  a  tin  or  ipon  plate  6n  a 
conspicuous  part  of  each  vehicle,  and  .**ich  of  the  figures  and 
cyphers  must  beat  least  two  inches  high;   and*  every  person  in 

contravention  of  this  article' shall  pay -a  tine  of  fo  besides  being 
liable  to  a  fine  of  $1  per  day  I'.ir  each  day  he  ,-hall  continue  io  keep  for 
hire,  each  and  every  vehicle  without  the  same  being  thus  numbered. 

Art.  4.  Beit  further  Ordained,  That  no  person  shall  have  the 
right  to  claim  or  receive  any  payment  or  compensation  for  the  trans- 
portation of.any  produce,  lumber,  bricks,  or  other  materials,  unless 
his  vehicle  has  been  numbered  and  duly  registered  as  before 
prescribed. 

Art.  5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  is  expressly  forbidden  to 
the  drivers  of  the  vehicles  hereinbefore  designated,  as  well  as  all 
others  of  what  nature  or  kind  soever,  to  drive  said  vehicle  in  the 
streets  of  this  city  with  such  rapidity  as  may  endanger  the  safely 
of  the  passengers  in  the  streets,  under  the  penalty  "fa  line  of  not 
less  than  $5  nor  more  than  s_v>  lor  each  offence:  and  il  the  driver  be 
a  slave,  who  shall  violate  this  article,  he  shall  suffer  the  penalty 
of  ten  lashes,  unless  his  master  prefer  to  pay  said  line. 

Art.  6.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  line  imposed  by  this  ordi- 
nance shall  be  sued  for  before  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction; 
and  such  line,  when    recovered,  shall  be  put  to  the  use  of  the  city. 

Art.  7.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  >>w  dots  of  private  carts,, 
drays  and  wagons,  shall  be  compelled  to  take  out  a  number,  as 
provided  for  by  the  ordinance  fixing  the  prices  of  licenses,  under 
penalty  of  a  fine  of  $5  fin-  each  and  every  violation  of  this  article. 


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AN  ORDINANCE  PROVIDING  FOR  THE  FREE  PASSAGE  OF  CARRIAGES, 
CARTS  AND  OTHER  VEHICLES  OF  NEW  ORLEANS  IN  THE  CITY 
OF  CARROLLTON.* 

Adopted  May  20,  1846. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  any  carriage,  cart  or  other  vehicle, 
the  owner  of -which  may  have  taken  a  number- or  license  for  the 
same  in  the  City  .of  Now  Orleans,  Jefferson  City  or  the  Parish  of 
Jefferson,  shall  pass  through  or  in  this  city  free;  provided  the 
authorities  of  New  Orleans,  Jefferson  City  and  the  Parish  of  Jefferson 
extend  fhe  same  privilege  to  any  carriage,  cart  or  other  vehicle,  the 
owner  of  which  may  have  taken  out  a  number  or  license  for  the 
same  in  the  city  of  Carrollton;  and  provided  further,  that  this 
ordinance  shall  not  be  construed  so  that  vehicles  licensed  in  New 
Orleans,  Jefferson  City  and  the  Parish  of  Jefferson,  may  ply  regularly 
in  this  city,  but  only  as  regards  the  passage  in  and  through  the  same. 

*  The  privilege  of  this  ordinance  was  extended  to  Jefferson  City  and  the  Parish  of  Jefferson, 
by  amendment  of  February  q,  1865. 


CEMETERY. 
.NX  ORDINANCE  ESTABLISHING  THE  CARROLLTON  CEMETERY. 

Adopted  June  28,  1848. 

Art.  1.  Be  it.  Ordained,  That  all  square  No.  74,  lately  bought 
from  Mr.  L.  Millaudon  by  the  corporation,  is  hereby  established 
as  the  Carrollton  Cemetery. 

'  Art.  2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  from  and  after  the  passage 
bfithis  ordinance  it  shall  be  unlawful  to  inter  dead  bodies  any  where 
else  in  the  limits  of  tins'  cit}-  than  in  said  cemetery;  and  any  per- 
son contravening  this  ordinance  shall  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
ten  dollars  to  the  corporation  for  each  offence,  and  pay  the  expense 
of  removing  the  same  besides;  the  whole  amount-to  be  recovera- 
ble before  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction  in  the  premises. 

Art.  '.'>.  As  amended  by  Article  1st,  of  the  ordinance  on  the  duties  of 
Sexton:  Be  i>  further  Ordained,  That  graves  shall  not  be  less  than 
four  i'eei  deep,  and  shall  be  dug  on  the  spot  dosignatcd'by  the 
Surveyor,  or  according  to  the  plan  of  the  Cemetery,  under  a  pen- 
alty of  one  dollar,  to  be  paid  by  the  Sextoa  for  each  default. 

Akt.  4.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  price  of  interment  shall 
be  for  free  grown  persona  five  dollars,  and  for  slaves  four  dollars, 
and  for  children  under  twelve  years  half  the  above  sums. 

Arts.  5,  6,  7  and  8  repealed. 


AN  ORDINANCE  ON  THE  DUTIES  OF  THE  SEXTON. 

Adopted  April  IS,  1849. 

Article  1.     Be  it  Ordained,    That  the  resolution  passed  by  tho 
former  Council  at  their   sitting  of  June  28,  1848,  be  amended  as 


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follows:  That  Art.  3  be  amended  so  as  to  read:  That  all  graves 
shall  not  be  less  than  four  feet  deep,  and  shall  be  dug-  on  the  spot 
designated  by  the  Surveyor,  or  according  to  the  plan  of  the  ceme- 
tery, under  the  penalty  of  a  fine  of  one  dollar,  to  be  paid  by  the 
Sexton,  for  each  default. 

Art.  2.     Repealed. 

Art.  3.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Sexton,  or  keeper  of  the  burying  ground,  to  keep  it  in  good  order; 
and  he  shall  not  allow  horses,  or  any  other  kind  of  stock,  to  run 
within  said  ground;  and  when  he  neglects  keeping  said  ground 
in  the  order  prescribed  above,  or  allows  stock  to  trespass  upon  it, 
he  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  5  to  10  dollars  for  each  offence,  for 
the  use  of  the  city. 

Art.  4.  Be  it  further  Ordained.,  That  any  person  who  shall  bring 
to  the  cemetery  any  corpse  for  interment,  and  make  a  false  repre- 
sentation to  the  Sexton  or  keeper,  of  the  color  of  the  deceased, 
shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  fifty  dollars,  rocQverable  before  any 
court  of  competent  jurisdiction,  one-half  for  the  use  of  the  city, 
and  the  other  half  for  the  person  giving  information  thereof;  and 
should  any  person  contravene  the  rules  of  the  cemetery,  by  caus- 
ing the  interment  of  a  deeeased  person  in  a  place  prohibited  by 
said  rules,  the  person  so  contravening  shall  cause  the  corpse  to  be 
removed,  at  his  own  expense,  within  twenty-four  hours  after  being 
notified  thereof. 

Art.  5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  whenever  the  Keeper  or 
Sexton  shall  permit,  through  negligence  or  otherwise,  the  interment 
of  any  corpse  in  a  part  of  the  cemetery  not  allotcd  for  the  deceased, 
he  shall  become  liable  to  the  payment  of  twenty-five  dollars  for 
each  offence,  recoverable  as  aforesaid,  and  shall  also  cause  said 
corpse  to  be  removed  at  his  own  expense. 

Art.  G.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  tombs  hereafter  to  be 
constructed  in  said  cemetery,  shall  be  well  and  sufficiently  plas- 
tered inside,  and  the  walls  of  said  tombs  shall  not  be  less  than 
nine  inches  in  thickness. 

Art.  7.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Commissary  to  visit  and  examine  the  condition  of  the  cemetery  as 
often  as  possible,  and  see  that  all  the  ordinances  relating  to  the 
police  of  said  establishment  be  faithfully  executed,  and  to  report 
immediately  to  the  Mayor  any  infraction,  or  neglect  of  the  ordi- 
nances on  that  subject  by  the  Sexton,  that  the  same  may  be 
remedied. 

Art.  8.     Repealed,  June  12,  1861. 


A  RESOLUTION  ON  THE  PRICE  OF  COFFINS. 

Adopted  April  18,  1849. 

Resolved,  That  for  all  coffins  furnished  to  the  corporation,  a  sum 
not  exceeding  three  dollars  for  a  large  one,  and  two  dollars  for  a 
small  one,  shall  be  paid. 


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AN  ORDINANCE  TO  CHANGE  THE  MODE  OF  EFFECTING  INTERMENTS 
IN  THE  CEMETERY,  AND  FOR  RECORDING  THE  SAME. 

Adopted  July  26,  1850. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  hereafter,  when  a  person  wishes  to 
have  a  corpse  interred  in  the  Carrollton  Cemetery,  he  *or  she  shall 
pay  the  price  fixed,  or  that  may  be  fixed  by  the  Mayor  and  Coun- 
cil, for  the  grave,  vault  or  tomb,  to  the  City  Treasurer,  who  shall 
give  a  receipt  for  the  .same,  which  receipt  shall  be  carried  to  the 
Sexton  of  said  cemetery,  accompanied  with  a  certificate  express- 
ing the  name,  age,  color  and  condition,. (bond  or  free,)  time  and 
cause  of  death  of  the  person  to  be  interred,  signed  by.  a  licensed 
physician,  the  Coroner,  or  by 'two  respectable  and  well-known  citi- 
zens of  the  city,  or  by  a  licensed  midwife,  in  case  the  corpse  is  that 
of  a  child  born  dead. 

Art.  2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  when  a  person,  wishing  to 
have  a  corpse  interred,  has  complied  with  the  foregoing  article,  it 
shalb  be,  and  is  hereby  made  the  duly  of  the  Sexton  to  inter  the 
corpse  in  such  part  of  the  cemetery  as  may  be  lawful.  The  Sex- 
ton snail  also  enter  in  a  book  kept  by  him  for  that  purpose  all  the 
particulars  contained  in  said  certificate,  and  on  each  day  of  the 
regular  session  of  the  Mayor  and  Council,  he  shall  return  to  the 
Comptroller  of  this  city,  before  four  o'clock,  P.  M.,  all  the. Treasur- 
er's receipts  for  burial  fees,  and  the  certificates  of  deaths  which 
may  have  come  into  his  possession,  to  be  by  the  Comptroller  filed 
and  charged. 

Art.  3.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  fche*book  in  which  the  Sex- 
ton enters  the  particulars  of  deaths  shall,  be  the  property  of  the 
the  corporation,  and  at  all  times  subject  to  the  inspection  of  the 
Mayor,  Councilmeu  and  officers  of  the  city;  and  tire  Sexton 
shall  at  all  times  give  such  information*  as  may  be  in  said  book  at 
the  request  of  any  person. 

Article  4  repeals  articles  1  and  8  of  the  ordinance  establishing 
the  cemetery,  adopted  June  28,  1848. 


A  RESOLUTION  FIXING  THE  PRICE  OF  TOMB  LOTS. 

Adopted  S<pt.  20,  1848. 

Resolved,  That  the  price  of  tomb  lots  shall  be  fifteen  dollars;  and 
that  all  sales  not  complied  with  within  fifteen  days  shaJl  be  null 
and  void. 

Resolved  further,  That  the  Mayor  is  hereby  authorized  to  sell  any 
person  or  persons  tomb  lot..,  designating  the  square  and  number 
of  said  lots. 


A  RESOLUTION  CONCERNING  DEEDS  FOB  TOMB  LOTS. 

Adopted  October  10,  1848. 

Resolved,  That  the  certificate  of  the  Comptroller,  countersigned 
by  the  Mayor,  shall  be  a  sufficient  deed  for  said  lots. 

4 


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RESOLUTION  FIXING  THE  THICK  OP  VAULTS. 

Adopted  October  24,  1855. 

Resolved,  That  the  *um  of  thirty  dollars  bo  and  is  hereby  fixed  as 
the  price  for  each  of  the  small  vaults,  and  the  sum  of  thirty-five 
dollars  be  and  is  hereby  fixed  as  the  price  for  each  of  the  larger 
vaults  in  the  Carrollton  Cemetery,  belonging  to  the  corporation. 


ORDINANCE  RELATING  TO  TOMB  LOTS. 

Adopted  October  24,  1855. 

1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  any  title  to  any  lot  or  lots  in  the  Carroll- 
ton  Cemetery,  issued  by  the  Comptroller  and  countersigned  by  the 
Mayor,  shall  contain  a  printed  clause  expressly  forbidding  the  pur- 
chaser or  purchasers  to  re-sell  or  transfer  said  lot  or  lots  without 
the  consent  of  the  Council,  and  expressly  declaring  the  nullity  of 
said  sale  in  case  the  purchaser  or  purchasers  re-sell,  transfer  or 
rent  said  lot  or  lots,  or  any  improvements  thereon,  without  said 
consent. 

2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  said  purchaser  or  purchasers  shall 
not  use  the  said  lot  or  lots  for  any  other  purpose  than  the  con- 
struction of  such  works  as  are  intended  and  employed  for  the 
burial  of  the  dead,  and  they  shall  bear  no  inscription  of  a  jesting, 
an  immoral  or  an  indecent  character. 

3.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  in  addition  to  .the  forfeiture  of 
said  lot  or  lots  for  the  violations  aforesaid,  the  party  or  parties 
violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall  be  subject 
to  an  additional  penalty  of  fifty  dollars;  one-half  of  which  shall  be 
paid  to  the  informer. 


AN    ORDINANCE   CONCERNING    TOMBS,  VAULTS.  ETC.  IN  THE  CAR- 
ROLLTON CEMETERY. 

Adopted  July  25,'  1860. 

1.  /;.  it  Ordained  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of the  Cidj  of  Carrollton, 
That  the.  Mayor  is  authorized  to  grant  permission  in  writing,  on 
application  to  him  in  writing,  for  the  temporary  use  of  a  cemetery 
vault  for  any  period  less  than  one  year;  provided,  the  applicant 
exhibit  to  him  the  Treasurer's  receipt  for  ten  dollars  paid  for  such 

!;->■. 

2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  Mayor  is  authorized  to  grant 
orders  in  writing  to  the  Sexton  for  the  gratuitous  interment  of  the 
corpse  of  any  iudij  Lever  it  shall  be  shown  to  him, 
by  a  certificate  Bigried  l>y  two  i  v  more  citizens,  that  the  deceased 
was  really  poor  and  left  nothing  wherewith  to  pay  the  burial  fees. 

:;.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Sex- 


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ton  to  close  and  keep  the  cemetery  vaults  closed  up  with  bricks 
and  mortaf,  and  to  preserve  the  numbers  on  the  vaults  as  much 
as  possible,  and  renew  them  when  necessary.  ■ 

4.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  Mayor  is  authorized  to  grant 
permission  in  writing,  on  application  in  writing-,  to  any  properly 
interested  person,  to  open  any  vault  or  tomb  in  the  Carroll  ton 
Cemetery  for  the  purpose  of  burying  a  corpse,  or  for  the  purpose 
of  removing  the  remains  of  a  corpse,  or  for  any  other  proper 
purpose. 

5.  Beit  further  Ordained,  That  any  person  who  shall  place  a 
corpse  in  any  city  vault  in  the  cemetery  without  the  proper  author- 
ity, shall  bo  liable  for  a  line  of  $25,  and  any  person  who  shall  open 
without  authority,  or  break  on  a  tomb  or  vault  in  the  ceme- 
tery, shall  be  liable  for  a  fine  of  $25 — said  fines  to  be  recovered 
before  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction;  one-half  for  the  informer 
and  the  other  half  for  the  cilv. 

6.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  in  the  absence  or  inability  of  the 
Mayor,  the  Comptroller  is  authorized  to  issue  the  orders  and  per- 
mits provided  for  in  this  ordinance. 


AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  THE  CEMETERY. 

Adopted  June  12,  18G1. 

1.  Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  City  of  Car  roll  ton, 
That  all  tombs  and  vaults  in  the  cemetery  must  be  kept  in  good 
order,  and  clear  of  weeds  and  grass,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Sexton  or  keeper  to  notify  the  owners  thereof  to  have  them  repaired 
and  cleared  when  necessary;  otherwise  it  shall  he  done  by  the  city 
at  the  expense  of  the  owners,  who  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  no1 
exceeding  $25  for  each,  neglect  after  notice. 

2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  violators  of  the  cemetery  ordi- 
nances and  regulations  shall  be  fined  $25  for  each  offence;  and  for 
burying  a  corpse  without  proper  authority  and  direction,  the  offen- 
der shall  be  fined  $25,  and  liable  I"  a  criminal  proi  ecution for  tres- 
pass. For  injuring  or  breaking  the  trees  or  Bhrubbery%lanted  in 
the  cemetery,  the  enclosures  <•!'  graves,  or  the  f<  oce  around  the 
cemetery,  the  oneafer  shaJU  be  lined  $10;  and  for  committing  any 
nuisance  or  u^ing  rndecenf  langua  re  on  the  cemeten  grounds,  the 
offender  shall  be  fined  $10  for  each  '  irbiddea  to 
sell  cakes,  beer,  candies  or  any  merchandize  in  the  i  emetery,  or'to 
carry  on  any  kind  of  games  or  amusements  therein,  under  a  penalty 
of  %\%  for  each  offence. 

o.   lie  it  further  Ordained,  Thai  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  per- 
son afrwhose  domicil  anypers  m  shall  have  died  to  cause  the  same 
.to  be  buried  within  forty-eight  hours  after  the  death;  any  pen 
offending  in  this  particular  shall  pay  a  fine  not  exceeding  $100. 

4.  Be  it  farther  Ordained,  'lint  the  Mayor  and  the  Comptroller  are 
authorized  on  wrii|gj^p5licatioii  to  grant  written  orders  and  per- 


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mits  t«>  disinter  and  remove  the  remains  of  any  corpse  which  Ihis 
been  buried  in  the  cemetery,  and  for  any  false  representations  to 
procure  tin-  removal  of  the* remains,  or  for  disinterring  or  removing 

the  remains  of  any  corpse  without  proper  authority,  or  for  any 
.•ration  of  a  grave,  tomb,  or  vault,  the  offender  shall  be  fined 
not  exa  eding  $100. 


AN   ORDINANCE  RELATIVE  TO  CEMETERY  FEES. 

Adopted  July  -21,  1861. 

Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Mayor  and  Covmcil  of  the  Citi/  of  Currollton, 
That  the  Sexton  is  authorized  and  required  to  charge  and  collect 
the  fees  named  below,  to- wit:    for  burying  an   adull   in  a  private 

tomb-lot,  si   oil;  for  burying  the  body  of  a  child  under  ten  years 
of  age,  in  private  tomb-lot,  Si ;  for  attending  to  the  burial  of  a  body 

in  a  tomb  or  vault,  $1. 

For  attending  the  opening  of  a  tomb  or  vault  for  the  removal  of 
remains  or  otherwise,  one  dollar. 

For  opening  a  grave  and  taking  up  the  remains  lor  removal  or 
otherwise,  three  dollars. 

The  foregoing  fees  Shall  be  paid  to  the  Treasurer  at  the  same 
time  the  Sexton  makes  his  regular  return  of  papers,  and  receipt 
therefor  filed  with  the  Comptroller. 

2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  ii  shall  he  the  duty  of  tho  Sexton 
to  procure  the  necessary  material  and  workmen  for  opening  and 
closing  vaults  and  tombs  at  the  expense  and  cost  of  the  owner  of 
the  vault  or  tomb,  and  lie  shall  see  that  the  same  are  paid  for. 


AX  ORDINANCE  DEFINING  THK  DUTIES  OF  THE  COLLECTOR! 

pled  December  11,  1846.  ■ 

Am.  1.  Beit  Ordained,  Thai  il  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Collect- 
or of  this  city  to  collect  and  receipt  for  all  bills  for  taxes  on  real 
•  •state,  ai£)  such  other  accounts  and  bills  duo  to  this  corporation, 
as  the  Comptroller  may  from  lime  to  time  place  in  his  hands  for 
collection,  and  shall  receipt  to  the  Comptroller  for  the  same. 

Akt.  -J.  Be  it  further  Ordained ,  That  the  Collector  shall  have  full 
power  to  institute  suits  in  the  name  or  the  corporation  for  the 
recovery  of  such  bills  as  may  be  placed  in  his  hands  for  collection 
and  which  may  be  duo;  and  he  shall  be  held  responsible  for  all 
deficiencies  that  may  arise  in  the  revenues  from  taxes  and  rents, 
from  delay  in  prosecuting  for  the  sain  • 

Art.  ::.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  pf  the 
Collector  to  pay   into   the  hands  of  the  er  on  every  Satur-. 

day,  the  amount  collected  by  him  during  the  week;  he  must  take 
the  Treasurer's  receipt  for  the  same,  and  file  it  with  the  Comptroller 
on  the  same  day.  «A^* 


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'Art.  4..  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Collector  to  keep  a  book  in  which  he  shall  enter  under  their  proper 
heads,  alphabetically,  the  names  of  all  persons  against  whom  he 
may  have  claims,  with  the  amount  due  by  each  individual 'set  oppo- 
site to  his  name,  and  to  note  carefully  and  minutely  in  said  book, 
opposite -to  the  names  aforesaid,  the  date  of  payments.* 

*Thal  portion  of  the  original  Avt.  2  allowing  the  Attorney  10  per  cent ;  all  the  Words  after 
"payments,"  in  Art.  4,  and  all  of  Art.  6,  struck  out  and  repealed,  A*ug.  7.  1861. 


RESOLUTION  AUTHORIZING   COLLECTOR  TO  CREDIT  WARRANTS   IX 

CERTAIN  CASES. 

*   4-— -     .  led  October  10,  1848. 

Be  it  Resolved,  That  when  persons  who  hold  warrants  against 
this  corporation  may  owe  licenses  or  taxes  to  this  corporation,  the 
Collector  shall  credit  said  warrant  with  the  amount  due.,  and  the 
said  person  holding  such  warrant  shall  give  receipt  as  having 
received. so  much  cash  on  account  of  his  warrant,  which  receipt 
shall  be  taken  from  the  Collector  by  the  Treasurer  as  so  much  cash 
received,  and  the  Treasurer  shall  give  such  receipt  when  the  war- 
rant is  presented,  as  so  much  cash  parti  towards  such  warrant. 


COMMISSARY. 

AN    ORDINANCE    CREATING    THE     OFFICE   OF    COMMISSARY    AND 
DEFINING  HIS  DUTIES. 
4^  Adopted  May  1,  1845. 

Article  4.     Be  it    Ordained,   That  it  shall   be   the  duty  of 
Commissary  to  examine  and  attend  to  all  the  levees,  roads,  streets 
and  ditches  within  the  limits  of  tin'  city,  and  to  report   in  writing 
to  the  Council,   at  lea*  a  month,   the  condition  of  the  said 

levees,  roads,  streets  and  ditches,  and  as  oft<  n  as  any  amelioration 
or  repairs  may  hi'  necessary  to  any  pf' them,  and  in  case  of  any 
urgent  necessity  i  i  regard  to  the  levee,  he  shall  report  forthwith 
to  th«'  Mayor. 

Art.  5.  Be  ii  fwrtker  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Commissary  to  report  in  writing  to  the  Mayor  the'  name  ami  place 
of  any  person  who  may  he  selling  liquors,  beer,  soda-water,  or 
keeping  any  kind  of  store  in  the  city  without  a  license;  also,  to 
arrest  and  cause  to  he  prosecuted,  any  peddler  who  may  be  ped- 
dling or  Belling  within  the  limits  of  the  city  without  being  licensed 
according  to  the  ordinances  in  thai  ide  and  provided;  also, 

io  detain  any  cart,  carriage,  or  other  vehicle,  which  may  not  he 
branded  or  numbered,  or  in  regard  to  which  the  owners  may  not 
have  complied  with  the  ordinances  relative  thereto. 


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Art.  (I.  B,  it  further  Ordained,,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Commissary  to  suppress  riots,  or  disturbances  of  the  public  pear.', 
and  to  take  tli«'  offenders  before  the  .Mayor,  or  other  magistrate, 
and  also  to  examine  all  vaj  lto,  and  such  others  as. 

should  come  under  the  description  of  idle  or  disorderly  persons,  as 
i"  the  mode  they  pursue  of  acquiring  a  livelihood,  their  place  of 
residence,  &c,  and  upon  refusal,  or  impossibility,  on  the  part  of 
said  individuals,  to  give  satisfactory  ace  unit  the,  'Oivhend 

and  carry  such  persons  before  the  Mayor,  or' some  other  magistrate 
within  the  limits  of  the  city,  to  be  deall  with  according  to  law;  and 
moreover,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  Gommissaty  to  stop  run- 
away slaves  within  the  city,  and  bring  them  before  the  Mayor,  or 
other  magistrate,  to  be  dealt  with  according,  to  law,  and  the  reward 
allowed  by  law  for  arresting  runaway  slaves  shall  be  paid  to  the 
said  Commissary. 

Art.  7.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Commissary  to  notify  all  owners,  possessors,  agents  or  tenants  of 
property,  whereon  any  dead  animal,  or  other  nuisance  may  be 
found,  to  remove  the  same  within  such  reasonable  time,  as  from  the 
nature  of  the  nuisance  it  may  appear  expedient  to  the  Commissary, 
that  the  same  ought  to  be.rcmoved;  and  should  said  nuisance  not 
be  removed  within  the  time  prescribed,  the  Commissary  shall  cause 
the  same  to  be  removed  at  the  expense'of  such  delinquents,  who 
shall  likewise  be  fined  in  a  sum  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor 
exceeding  twenty-five,  to  be  prosecuted  for  by  the  Commissary 
before  any  competent  magistrate,  for  the  use  of  the  city. 

Art.  8.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Commissary  to  be  present  at  each  si:  I  ing  of  the  Council,  to  execute 
such  orders  as  may  delivered  to  him  by  the  proper  officers,  and 
to  enforce  order  in  the  Council  Room;  also,  to  see  that  all  ordi- 
nances relative  to  his  department  and  the'general  police  of  the  city 
be  executed,  and  to  give  information  to  the'  proper  authorities  of 
all  violations  of  the  same  that  may  come  to  his  knowledge,  together 
with  the  names  of  the  offenders  and  witnesses,  in  order  that  they 
may  be  dealt  with  according  to  law;  and  for  any  neglect  of  duty 
or  non-attendance,  except  in  case  of  sickness,  or  other  sufficient 
cause,  the  Commissary  shall,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Mayor  and 
Council,  be  fined  in  a-  sum  not  less  than  five,  nor  exceeding  ten 
dollars;  and  further,  be  liable  to  be  removed  from  office  by  a 
majority  of  the  Council. 

Art.  (.i.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  any  person  or  persons,  who 
shall  hinder,  molest,  insult,  or  do  anything  tending  to  prevent  the 
Commissary  from  executing  his  duties  as  prescribed  in  the  ordi- 
nances of  the  Council,  and  all  persons  aiding  or  abetting  in  such 
contravention,  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  of  not  less  than  twenty-five, 
nor  exceec i i n •-;•  one  hundred  dollars;  to  be  recovered  for  the  use  of 
the  city  before  any  competent  magistrate. 

Art.  10.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Commissary,  whenever  a  new  fence  or  building  fronting  on   any 


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street  of  the  city,  shall  be  erected,  to  request  the  person  putting 
up  such  fence  or  building  to  produce  a  certificate  of  the  city 
Surveyor,  showing1  that  the  lot  on  which  the  new  work  is  made,  or 
being  made,  has  been  surveyed;  and  in  case  such  certificate  shall 
not  be  produced,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  Commissary  to  give 
notice  to  such  person  not  to  progress  any  more  in  said  work,  and 
to  report  on  the  whole *to  the  Council  at  their  next  meeting;  and 
further,  that  he  shall  notify  those  persons  who  have  placed  their 
fences  so  as  to  encroach  on  the  streets  to  remove  the  same,  and  to 
obtain  the  proper  lines  from  the  City  Surveyor. 

Art.  11.  Beit  fwrther  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Commissaiy  to  keep  a  diary  or  reeprd  of  his  proceedings,  in  a 
book  to  be  furnished  by  the  Council,  and  which  book  shall  be 
accessible  at  all  times  to  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  city;  in  it 
he  shall  insert  from  day  to  day,  the  rounds  he  may  have  made  in  the 
city,  the  naines  and  residences  <>!'  all  poisons  lie  may  find  in  con- 
travention of  existing  ordinances,  and  the  means  he  has  taken  to 
enforce  their  observance;  also,  a  copy  of  all  notices  given  by  him, 
together  with  all  other  matters  touching  the  execution  of  his  office.* 

*Articles  1,  2,  3,  12,  repealed,  and  all  after  "  office  "  in  article  11  struck  out  August  7, 1861. 


AN   ORDINANCE    PROVIDING    FOR   THE  TAKING    OF  A  CENSUS  OF 
THE  INHABITANTS  OF  CARROLLTON. 

Adopted  March  11,  1846. 
Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Com- 
missary of  this  city,  immediately  after  the  publication  of  this 
ordinance,  and  between  the  1st  and  15th  of  October*  of  each  year 
thereafter,  to  take  a  census  of  the  inhabitants  and  occupations  or 
professions  of  this  city,  and  that  said  census  shall  show  the  number 
of  persons  under  the  age  of  three  years;  over  three  and  under  six; 
fover  six  and  under  ten;  over  ten  aud  under  sixteen;  over  sixteen 
and  under  twenty-one;  and  all  over  twenty-one  years  of  age, 
in  separate  Columns,  with  the  occupation  or  profession  of  each 
person  set  opposite  to  the  name.  And  he  shall  designate  those 
entitled  to  vote,  and  the  names,  &c,  of  the  males  and  females  shall 
be  put  in  separate  column's,  the  whole 'to  be  arranged  alphabeti- 
cally. He  shall  return  the  same  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Council, 
who  shall  file  it  in  the  archives  of  the  corporation,  after  it  shall 
have  been  submitted  to  and  approved  by  the  Council. 

*The  wards  "between  the  1st  and  15th  of  October,"  put  instead  ef  "in  the  month  of  Jan'y," 

in  1857.    Article  2,  repealed  August  7.  ' 

fTho  words  "six"  and  "sixteen,''  substituted  for  "five"  and  "fifteen,"  February  9, 1855. 


RESOLUTION  CONCERNING  THE  COMMISSARY. 

Adopted  February  '.',  1848. 
Resolved,  That  the  Commissary  shall  be,  and  be  ta  hereby  repaired 


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to  report  t<>  this  Council,  on  the  first  meetin  b  month,  the 

amount  of  work  done  on  the  streets  and  levee  under   his  superin- 
tendence, describing  the  particular  place 'where  the  said  work  has 
•  me. 


AN  ORDINANCE  DEFDHNG- ADDITIONAL  DUTIES  OP  THE  COMMISSARY. 

Adopted  October  19,  l 

1.  Be  it  Ordained,  fyc,  That  it  shall  be  duty  of  the  Commissary 
of  this  city  to  cuter  in  the  record  book  which  be  is  required  to  keep 
by  article  11  of  the  ordinance  denning  his  duties,  a  correct  list  and 
account  of  all  the  tools  and  public  property  in  bis  hands  or  under 
his  control,  and  to  add  to  his  account  all  .such  tools  as  may  come 
into  his  hands  from  time  to  time;  also,  to  make  a  note  or  entry  in 
his  book  of  the  loss  or  destruction  t>f  all  such  tools  and  property 
as  may  occur;  and  for  all  such  tools  and  property  as  may  come 
into  his  hands,  he  shall  file  a  receipt  with  the  Comptroller  forthwith, 
alter  their  reception. 


COMPTROLLER. 

AN    ORDINANCE    CREATING   THE   OFFICE    OF    COMPTROLLER   AND 
DEFINING  HIS  DUTIES. 

Adopted  May  1,  1845. 

Ai:t.  2.  Ik  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Comptroller  to  examine  and  liquidate  all  claims,  and  to  accredit 
all  accounts  against  the  corporation,  and  to  report  the  same  with 
a  statement  of  facts,  and  his  opinion  thereon,  if  he  shall  deem  it 
proper,  to  the  Council,  at  their  next  regular  meeting,  for  their  action 
thereon;  to  countersign  all  warrants  drawn  on  the  Treasurer,  in 
virtue  of  any  resolution  or  ordinance  of  the  Council,  for  the  pay- 
ment of  money;  to  examine,  adjust  and  settle  the  accounts  of  all 
ons  indebted  to  the  corporation;  to  take  charge  of  all  their  real 
estate;  to  superintend  the  collection  of  the  revenues  and  debts  due, 
and  to  take  charge  of  all  title  deeds  belonging  to  the  corporation. 

Art.  :;.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  if  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Comptroller  to  keep  a  complete  set  of  books,  wherdin  shall  be  stated 

the  appropriations  for  each  distinct  object  of  expenditures,  to  the 
end  that  whenever  appropriations  for  the  specific  object  shall  have 
been  expended,  he  shall  communicate  the  same  to  the  Coupcil.  The 
Comptroller  shall  also  receive  all  bills  and  accounts  of  persons 
having  demands  against  the  corporation,  to  examine  them  in  detail, 
and  if  correct,  to  eider  them  in  his  books,  in  such  manner  as  the 
Committee  on  Finance  may  direct,  and  shall  certify  the  same;  and 
shall  also  keep  an.  account  of  all  the  debts  due  by  and  to  them,  as 
well  as  an  account  of  all  the  property  and  claims  of  said  Mayor 


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and  Council;  and  it  shall  bo  the  duty  of  said  Comptroller  to  perform 
any  services  from  time  to  time,  that  the  Council  may  require. 

Art.  4.  Be  it  further  Ordained^  That  it -shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Comptroller  to  make  out  and  *  countersign  all  receipts  for  taxes  on 
real  estate  and  slaves;  all  bills  for  ground  rents,  or  receipts  for 
wharfage  and  other  revenue,  and  deliver  the  same  to  the  proper 
officers  for  collection,  charging  the  officer  with  the  amount  thereof, 
f  and  he  shall,  on  or  before  the  15th  day  of  November  of  each  year, 
make  out  and  lay  before  the  Council,  a  full  and  detailed  statement 
of  the  revenue  and  expenditure  Up  to  the  31st  of  October,  with  such 
suggestions  on  the  fiscal  affairs  of  the  corporation  as  he  may  deem 
advisable.^ 

Art.  5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  in  case  of  vacancy  of  the 
office  of  Comptroller,  or  hia  absence,  or  inability  to  perform  his 
duties,  the  Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee  is  hereby  authorized 
to.approvc  of  all  accounts  due  by  the  corporation,  in  virtue  of  any 
ordinance  or  resolution  of  the  Council. 

*The  words  "make  out  and"  wore  inserted  by  amendment  of  April  12, 1854, 
tThe  remainder  of  the  4th  article  is  an  amendment,  adopted  February  2,  1853. 
JA11  tho  words  after  advisable  struck  out  and  repealed,  August  7th,  1861. 


AN    ORDINANCE    DEFINING    ADDITIONAL    DUTIES  OP    THE  COMP- 
TROLLER. 

Adopted  August*!,  1861. 
Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  Citv  of 
Carrollton,  That  it  shall  be  and  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  "the 
Comptroller  to  report  monthly  to  the  Council  for  publication,  the 
names  of  persons  to  whom  licenses  have  been  issued  during 
the  month,  what  kind  of  licenses  were  issued  to  them,  and  the 
amount  paid  the  Treasurer  therefor.  He  shall  also,  in  the  month  of 
July  of  each  year,  enter  in  the  tableau  of  the  previous  year,  the 
names  of  all  delinquent  tax  payers  of  that  year,  and  the  amount 
due  by  each,  to  be  taken  from  a  certified  list  furnished  by  the  Col- 
lector, and  placed  in-  alphabetical  order. 


COUNCIL. 

DIVISION  OF  COUNCILMEX  FOR  LONG  AND  SHORT  TERM. 

Adopted  October  19,  1859. 
On  motion  of  Mr.  Gogrcvc,  seconded  by  .Mr.  Fischer,  the  Council 
proceeded  to  determine  by  lot  among  themselves,  in  accordance 
with  section  2  of  the  act  to  incorporate  the  City  of  Carrollton,  which 
fourof  them  shall  retire  on  the  first  Monday  in  October,  1800.  Four 
pieces  of  paper  marked  "long,"  and  four  pieces  marked  "short" 
were  placed  in  a  hat  by  the  Secretary,  and  the  members  each  drew 
out  a  piece,  with  the  understanding  that  the  members  who  drew  tin' 

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papers  marked  ".short''  arc  to  retire  from  the  Council  on  the  first 
Monday  in  October,  1800;  and  those  who  drew  the  papers  marked 
"long"  are  to  continue  as  Councilmen  until  the  election  on  the  first 
Monday  in  Oct  ber,  1861.. 

Messrs.  Fischer,  Davenport,  Schuler  and  Mayo,  dr.  iw  cadi  a  ])aper 
marked  "long,"  and  Messrs.  Berrle,  Hutchison,  Brookes  and  Go- 
greve  drew  each  a  paper  marked  "short." 

The  President  thereupon  declared  Messrs.  Herrle;  Hutchison, 
Brookes  and  G  igreve,  duly  chosen  For  the  snort  term,  and  Messrs. 
Fischer,  Davenport,  Schuler  and  Mayo,  duly  chosen  for  the  long 
term  .if  Councilmen. 

Adopted  December  14,  1859. 

Resolved,  That  itshall  be  the  duty  of  the  Streets  and  Landing  Com- 
mittee and  the  Finance  Committee  of  this  Council,  to  meet  for  the 
transaction  of  public  business,  at  the  Council  Hall,  at  one  o'clock 
P.  M.,  on  Monday  h  week. 


DITCHES. 

AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  ROADS.  STREETS,  DITCHES  &  BRIDGES'. 

Adopted  January  13,  1847. 

Art.  1.     Be  it    '  That  the  roads,  streets,  ditches  and 

bridges  of  this  city  shall  be  made,  cleaned  and  repaired  at  the 
expense  and  cost  of  the  city,  under  the  superintendence  of  the 
Commissary. 

Art.  2.  Be  if  further  Ordained,  That  all  ditches  on  the  streets, 
at  right  angles  with  Canal  Avenue,  shall  be  three  feet  wide  on  top, 
one  foot  deep  below  the  general  level  of  the  land,  and  one  foot  wide 
on  the  bottom. 

Art.  3.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  ditches  on  the  streets 
leading  to  the  woods  shall  gradually  increase  in  size;  commencing, 
from  the"  public  road  to  Levee  Street,  with,  two  feet  Avidth  on  the 
top,  one  foot  depth,  and  one  foot  wide  on  the  bottom;  then  to 
increase  each  square,  or  every  three  hundred  and  fifty  feet  in  length, 
six  inches  in  breadth,  until  they  arc  three  feet  wide  on  the  top,  and 
eighteen  inches  wide  on  the  bottom;  then  they  shall  be  dug  three 
inches  deeper  in  eaeli  square,  till  they  are  two  feet  deep,  when  the 
said  ditches  shall  again  be  dug  three  inches  wider  for  every  square 
■  L-  to  the  woods,  till  they  are  four  (feet  wide  on  the  top,  two 
and  a  half  feet  wide  on  the  bottom,  and  two  feel  deep. 

Aur. -1.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  dirt  taken  out  of  the 
ditches  shall  be  thrown  into  the  middle  of  the  streets  and  leveled  off; 
♦but  the  Commissary  may  order  dirt  taken  from  the  ditches  thrown 
into  low  places  on  the  banquettes. 

le  5  repealed,  and  article  4  amended,  by  adding  all  the  words  after  '-off"  Aug.  7, 1861.  . 


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FERRY. 

AH.  ORDINANCE  ESTABLISHING  THE  FERRY,  &c,  TO  PLY  BETWEEN 
CARROLLTON  AND  THE  OITOSITE  SIDE  OF  THE  RIVER  MIS- 
SISSIPPI. 

Adopted  October  8,  1845. 

Art.  1.  .  Be  it  Ordained,  That  the  following;  terms  and  agreement 
entered  into  by  the  joint  Committee  of  the  Police  Jury  of  the  Parish 
of  Jefferson,  and  of  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  Town  of  Carrollton, 
be  and  same  is  hereby  adopted  as  :i  standing"  ordinance  of  said 
Town  of  Carrollton. 

It  is  mutually  agreed:  .  1.  That  a  ferry  for  the  transportation  of 
persons,  horses,  carriages,  Sec,  shall  be  established  between  the 
town  of  Carrollton  and  the  opposite  bank  of  the  Mississippi  river, 
to  embrace  within  its  privilege  the  entire  front  of  said  town,  and 
the  front  of  the  river  included  between  the  lower  line  of  Camilla 
Zeringue's  plantation,  and  the  lower  line  of  L.  Labranche's  planta- 
tion on  the  opposite  shore;  the  lauding  place  on  the  Carrollton  side 
to  be  located  somewhere  between  Madison  and  Jefferson  streets  in 
said  town,  and  that  on  the  other  shore  to  be  located  at  any  point 
within  three  arpents  above  or  below  the  Glass  House,  that  may  be 
selected  by  the  persou  who   shall  'purchase   the  right  of  the  ferry. 

2.  That  the  exclusive  privilege  of  keeping  said  ferry  for  two 
years  shall  be  disposed  of  at  public  auction  to  the  highest  bidder, 
in  the  of  Town  Carrollton, on  the  10th  day  of  October,  1845,  under 
the  superintendence  of  the  Mayor  of  the  Town  of  Carrollton,  and  the 
President  of  the  Police  Jury;  the  purchase  money  payable  one-half 
cash,  and  the  other  half  in  twelve  months  from  Hie  date  of  adjudi- 
cation, in  two  notes  of  equal  amount,  and  satisfactorily  endorsed: 
the  proceeds  of  said  sale  to  be  equally  divided  between  the  Parish 
of  Jefferson  and  the  Town  of  Carrollton;  the  privilege  not  to  be 
vested  in  the  purchaser  until  the  terms  of  sale  are  complied  with; 
and  if  the  same  shall  not  be  complied  with  after  the'  lapse  of  live 
days  from  the  day  of  sale,  another  sale  shall  take1  place  within  ten 
days  thereafter,  to  be  conducted  as  above  set  forth. 

3.  That  any  person  or  persons  violating  the  privilege  hereby 
created,  after  the  same  shall  have  bee"n  duly  sold  and  transit 

as  above  set  forth,  shall,  for  each  offence,  be  an  a  tine  of 

ten  dollars,  recoverable  by  said  purchaser  for  his  own  benefit  before 
any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction. 

4.  The  keeper   of    the    ferry   shall   erect   at  each    landing  a 
conspicuous  sign   board  to  designate   the  same,  and  shall  ah'. 
keep  said  landings  in  as  g  iod  -  i  condition  as  practicable; 
he  shall  always  keep  ready  for  public  di  e,  al  leasl  two  good  ami 
skiffs,  not  less  than  nineteen  feel  in  length,  to  be  provided  each  with 

Suitable  oars,  and  steady  a:  id  able  boa  linen,  one  of  whom,  with  his 
skiff,  shall  remain  during  the  nighl  on  one  shore,  and  the  other  on 
the  opposite  shore;  and  thej  shall  be  so  arranged  that  all  the  akitfs 
shall  at  no  time  (night  or  i  Dgether  on  the  same  side  of  the 


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river.  The  regular  hours  of  crossing  shall  be  From  half  past  four 
o'clock,  A.  M.,  until  half-past  eight  o'clock,  P.  M.,  *cvery  half  hour; 
and  (the  keeper  ofthcferry  shall  post  up,  mi  each  landing  place-,  a 
copy  of  the  above  time;)  but  the  said  purchaser  shall,  during1  the 
whole  period  of  the  privilege,  cause  to  be  ferried  across  the  river, 
any  person  wishing  the  same,  at  any  time  other  than  between  the 
hours  above  mentioned,  and  he  may  demand  and  receive  for  each 
person  so  conveyed,  four  times  the  price  hereafter  fixed  for  ferriage 
during  the  regular  hours.  The  purchaser  may.  at  his. option,  keep, 
in  addition  to  the  skiffs,  (but  not  to  interrupt  the  regular  and  con- 
stant running  of  the  same,)  a  flat  or  barge,  sufficiently  manned 
and  furnished  for  the  transportation  of  horses,  carriages,  &c. 

5.  The  keeper  of  the  ferry  shall  be  entitled  to  demand  and 
receive  the  following  rates  of  fare,  for  crossing  during  the  regular 
hours  hereinbefore  mentioned,  viz: 

For  each  passenger  over  10  years  of  age 10 

For  each  passenger  over  5  and  not  over  10 5 

For  each  trunk,  box  or  package  weighing  over»20  pounds, 

and  under  100  pounds 5 

For  each  box,  package  or  barrel  weighing  over  100  pounds, 

and  under  250  pounds 10 

For  each  dog 10 

For  a  horse  and  rider r 75 

For  a  gig,  horse  and  rider 1  00 

For  a  four  wheeled  carriage,  one  horse  and  driver 1  25 

For  a  four  wheeled  carriage,  two  horses  and  driver 1  50 

For  a  pedlar's  cart  or  wagon,  one  horse  and  driver 2  50 

For  a  pedlar's  cart  or  wagon,  two  horses  and  driver 3  00 

For  a  planter's  cart,  one  horse,  or  two  horses  and  driver 1  00 

For  each  horse,  mule  or  kine,  not  exceeding  two 50 

For  three,  each 40 

For  four,  each 30 

For  any  number  over  four,  each 25 

For  each  sheep  or  hog,  not  less  than  eight  A 10 

For  any  number  less  than  eight,  for  the  whole 15 

All  persons  accompanjdng  any  vehicle,  other  than  the  driver,  to 
be  charged  as  passengers.  In  all  articles  not  enumerated,  the 
charge  shall  be  in  proportion  to  the  foregoing  rates,  and  any  exor- 
bitant charges  proved  against  the  ferryman  shall  be  deemed  a 
contravention. 

6,  For  any  non-compliance  with,  or  contravention  of  the  fore- 
going provisions,  the  keeper  of  the  ferry  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum 
not  less  than  ten  dollars,  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars, 
recoverable  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  Town  of  Carrollton, 
before  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction,  for  the  joint  benefit  of 
the  Town  and  Parish. 

*Tho  words  "every  half  hour,"  are  added  hy  Article  1  of  an  ordinance  of  February  4, 1852. 
The  clauso  included  in  bracket*,  is  an  interpolation  of  article  2,  entire,  of  said  ordinanco  of 
February  4,  1862. 


FIRE     DEPARTMENT. 

CARROLLTON   FIRE  CO.  No.#  1. 

February  25,  18.50. 

The  Council  appropriated  five  hundred  dollars  to  purchase  an 
engine,  on  the  proposition  of  the  Company,  that  it  shouid  be  the 
property  of  the  corporation  when  the  Company  dissolved,  unless 
the  money  was  refunded. 

February  4,  1852. 

The  Council  appropriated  for  the  use  of  said  Company,  as  long 
as  it  lawfully  exists,  a  lot  of  ground  on  Dublin  Street,  next  to  the 
jail,  35  feet  front,  by  120  feet  deep,  on  which  to  erect  an  engine 
house. 

March  24,  1852. 

The  Council  appropriated  five  hundred  dollars  towards  building 
the  engine  house,  and  endorsed  three  notes  of  three  hundred  and 
eighty  seven  and  a  half  dollars  each 

August  27,  1856. 

The  Council  appropriated  six  hundred  dollars  to  purchase  an 
engine,  on  condition,  that  the  engine  reverts  to  the  corporation 
when  the  Company  disbands. 

Other  appropriations  have  been  made  from  time  to  time,  to  both 
Companies,  but  without  conditions. 

Adopted  September  24,  1856. 

Resolved,  That  the  Mayor  be,  and  is  hereby  authorized  and 
instructed  to  purchase  from  Geo.  Reichcrt,  in  the  name  of  the 
corporation,  a  certain  lot  of  ground  on  Madison  Street,  for  the  sum 
of  three  hundred  dollars,  to  be  paid  in  six  mouths  from  date  of  sale, 
and  that  said  lot  be  appropriated  for  the  use  of  Star  Hook  and 
Ladder  Co.  No.  1,  so  long  as  said  Company  exists  as  a  corporate 
body. 


GUNPOWDER. 

AN  ORDINANCE  RELATIVE  TO  GUNPOWDER. 

Adopted  July  24,  1801. 

Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  City  of  Carrallton, 
That  the  merchants  of  Carrollton  who  have  been  or  may  be  licensed 
to  sell  gunpowder  shall  not  be  permitted  to  have  on  hand  at  any 
one  time  a  greater  quantity  of  gunpowder  than  thirty  pounds,  and 
that  shall  be  kept  in  a  suitable  tin  or  copper  canister,  to  be 
labeled  powder,  in  large  letters,  and  placed  in  sight,  within  conveni- 
ent distance  of  the  main  entrance  of  the  store.  Vendors  <>f  gunpowder, 
or  all  others  arc  forbidden  to  sell  or  give  gunpowder  to  minors  or 


slaves,  without  a  written  order  from  parents  of  owner;  and  every 
person  violating  this  article  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  twenty  five 
dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  offence. 

Akt.  'l.     Be  it  furi  .  That   every  person  is  forbidden 

to  keep  or  allow  to  remain  on  or  in  his  or  her  bouse,  room,  apartment 
or  premises,  any  quantity  of  gunpowder  exceeding  five  pounds;  and 
for  every  violation  of  this  article-,  the  offender  shall  he  fined 
twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offence;  provided,  this  article  does  not 
apply  to  persons  who  are  licensed  to  sell  powder. 
• 


AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  BOATS  SELLING  AT  THE  LANDING. 

Adopted  June  12,  1SG1. 

Be  it  Ordained,  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  City  of  Carrollton, 
That  owners  or  agents  of  fiatboats  or  other  water  crafts  lying  at 
the  landing  and  laden  with  merchandise,  provisions  or  grain,  shall 
have  the  privilege  of  o  for  sale  and  of  selling  such  goods  at 

the  landing  or  on  their  boat,  on  the  payment  of  a  tax  of  five  dollars 
per  week  in  advance;  provided,  that  spirituous  or  malt  liquors,  or 
wine  shall  not  be  retailed  from  such  boat  at  the  landing.  The  tax 
may  be  paid  to  the  Commissary  or  to  the  Treasurer;  but  any  one 
offering  for  sale,  or  selling  goods  as  aforesaid,  without  paying  the 
tax,  and  any  one  retailing  spirituous  or  malt  liquors,  or  wines  at 
the  landing  or  on  the  boat,  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  twenty-five 
dollars  for  each  offence. 

Be  it  fur/her  Ordained,  That  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the 
Commissary  to  collect  the  tax  imposed  by  this  ordinance  with 
comptrolled  bills,  and  to  report  each  and  evei^  violation  of  this 
ordinance  to  the  City  Attorney  for  suit;  and  he  is  authorized  to 
arrest  any  offender,  to  be  dealt  with  according  to  law. 


LAWSUITS. 

A  RESOLUTION  AUTHORIZING  PAYMENT  OF  COSTS  IN  LAWSUITS. 

Adopted  August  22,  1850. 

Resolved,  That  the  Mayor  is  hereby  authorized,  at  the  instituting 
of  any  suit  or  suits,  on  [he  part  of  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  this 
city,  by  the  Attorney,  to  draw  a  warrant  on  the  Treasurer  for  the 
amount  of  the  Justice's  and  Constable's  fees,  required  by  law  to 
be  paid  in  advance. 


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LICENSES — LIQUOR. 

AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  LIQUOR  LICENSES. 

Adopted'May  14,  1845. 

Art-  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  any  person  wishing  to  keep  a  house 
for  the  retail  of  spirituous  liquors  by  any  measure  less  than  a 
gallon,  must  obtain  from  the   Mayor  a  License  for  that  purpose. 

Art.  2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  every  person  applying  to 
obtain  licenses  as  aforesaid,  shall  subscribe  a  bond,  with  such 
security  as  the  Mayor  may  require,  conditioned  to  secure  the  pay- 
ment of  the  costs  of  the  license,  and  the  payment  of  any  fine,  which 
the  person  taking-  said  license  might  incur,  for  any  offence  against 
the  present  ordinance;  said  bond  and  security  shall  remain  in  force 
during  the  whole  year  for  which  it  shall  have  been  furnished,  and 
till  all  the  conditions  o\'  said  bond  shall  be  complied  with. 

Art.  3.  Be  it  fur/La-  Ordained,  That  every  person  who  shall 
have  obtained  a  license  as  afer<  said,  shall  be  hound  to  have  on  his 
door,  or  on  the  wall  of  his  house,  a  sign,  on  which  shall  be;  inscribed 
in  large  characters,  his  name  and  number  of  his  license;  and  every 
person  contravening  this  provision,  shall  pay  a  fine  of  five  dollars 
for  every  eight  days  he  shall  refuse  to  comply  with  the  same. 

Art.  4.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  persons  who  have 
obtained  a  license  to  sell  spirituous  liquors  by  the  pint,  are  prohib- 
ited to  sell  liquors  in  smaller  quantities;  and  every  person  in  contra- 
vention, shall,  for  each  offence,  pay  a  fine  from  twenty-five  to  fifty 
dollars,  one-half  to  the  city,  and  the  other  half  to  the  informer. 

Art.  5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  any  person  who,  after  having 
obtained  one  or  move  licenses  for  the  purposes  specified  in  this 
ordinance,  and  who  shall  make  over  or  sell  the  same  to  others,  shall, 
on  conviction  thereof,  be  lined  fifty  dollars  for. each  of  the  licenses 
so  made  over  or  sold;  as  shall  also  the  person  or  persons  who  may 
have  received  the  said  license  in  such  manner;  and  said  license 
may  be  withdrawn  by  the  Mayor,  in  case  the  holder  shall  be  guilty 
of  repeated  contraventions  of  the  present  ordinance.  Any  person 
who  shall  continue  in  the  before  mentioned  occupation  after  the 
.Mayor  shall  have  withdrawn  his  license,  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine 
of  twenty-five  dollars  for  every  week  I"-  shall  so  continue;  one-half 
of  said  fine  to  the  use  of  the  city,  and  the  other  half  to  the  informer. 

Art.  6.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  tavern  keepers  and  other 
persons  are  prohibited  fron  spirituous  or  fermented  liquors 

of  any  kind  to  any  soldier  in  *service,  unless  such  soldier  shall  be 
the  bearer  of  a  written  permission  from  his  officer,  on  penalty  of 
the  vendor  paying  for  every  such  offence  a  fine  of  twenty  dollars: 
one-half  of  said  line  to  the  City,  the  other  half  to  the  informer. 

Art.  7.     Be- it  further  Ordained,  Thai  ivern  keeper,  coffee- 

house keeper  or  retailer  of  Bpil  [UOrS,  is  forbidden  to  keep 

the  house  open  after  ten  o'clock  in  the  evening;  and  he  is  required 
to  prevent  the  persons  who  may  be  in  said  house  after  ten  o'clock, 

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from  disturbing  by  cries,  Bongs,  noise  or  otherwise,  the  peace  and 
tranquility  of  the  neighborhood;    and   ahoold   he   tolerate   such 

disorder  in  his  house,  after  the  aforesaid  hour,  he  shall  be  liable  to 

a  fine  "I"  ten  dollars  for  each   contravention. 

Art.  8.  Be  it  f  Wither  Ordained,  That  any  person  who  shall  sell 
spirituous  liqnora  by  retail,  without  having  obtained  a  license 
therefor,  as  herein  provided,  shall,  on  conviction  thereof,  be  liable 

line  of   one  hundred  dollars  for  every  otlenee;   one-half  of  said 

fine  to  the  city,  and  the  other  half  to  the  informer. 

Am.  9.     Beit  fori  --'.That  all  tavern,  grogshop,  coffee- 

house keepers,  and  other  persons,  who  shall  sell  or  give  any 
spirituous  liiiuors  to  slaves,  without  a  written  permission  from  their 
masters,  shall,  for  every  offence,  pay  a  tine  of  not  less  than  ten,  nor 
more  than  one  hundred  dollars;  and  every  tavern,  coffee-house 
keeper  or  other  person  who  shall  furnish  or  sell  intoxicating  liquors 
aves,  in  exchange  for  goods,  effects,  produce  or  other  merchan- 
dise, shall  be  liable  to  a  line  of  not  less  than  twenty,  nor  more 
than  one  hundred  dollars;  and  besides  be  liable  for  all  damages 
toward  any  person  entitled  to  the  same.  Tavern  keepers  and 
retailers  of  spirituous  liquors  arc  responsible  for  the  acts  of  all 
persons  in  their  employment  who  shall  be  guilty  of  any  offence 
mentioned  in  this  article;  and  they  shall  be  liable  to  the  fine  herein 
specified,  as  if  the  offence  had  been  committed  by  themselves. 

Art.  10.  Be  it-  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Commissary  to  enter  inns,  taverns,  coffeediouscs,  or  other  public 
houses,  in  order  to  take  cognizance  of  the  disorders  and  offences 
thai  may  be  committed  therein,  and  he  shall  report  to  the  Mayor 
the  offences  he  may  have  discovered. 

Abt.  11.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  no  person  shall  sell  liquors 
at  more  than  one  place,  unless  he  shall  have  obtained  a  license 
for  each. 


AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  LICENSES. 

Adopted  June  4,  1845. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  all  persons  wishing  to  keep  a 
tenpin  alley,  public  billiard  table,  a  house  for  the  retail  of  beer  and 
Other  drinks,  (excluding  spirituous  liquors,)  a  §oda  shop,  cigar 
shop,  dry  goods  or  clothing  store,  a  boarding  house  in  which  there 
are  iive  or  more  boarders,  a  dry  goods  and  grocery  store,  (not 
selling  spirituous  liquors,)  a  general  dry  goods,  clothing,  hardware, 
china  and  glassware,  and  grocery  store,  in  which  is  sold  spirituous 
liquors  by  the  pint  and  upwards,  a  baker's  cart,  and  non-residentmilk 
seller,  or  any  other  calling,  trade,  profession  or  occupation,  must 
obtain  licenses  from  the  Mayor  for  that  purpose,  in  accordance 
with  the  ordinance  fixing;  the  rate  of  licenses. 


*"0r  any  other  calling,  trade,  profession  or  occupation,"  added  June  26, 1851. 


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Art.  2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  every  person  who  shall 
obtain  a  license  as  aforesaid,  shall  bo  bound  to  have  on  his  door 
or  wall,  in  a  conspicuous  place,  a  sign,  with  his  name  inscribed 
thereon  in  large  characters;  and  every  person  contravening  this 
provision  shall  pay  a  fine  of  five  dollars  for  every  eight  days  he 
may  refuse  to  comply  with  the  same. 

Art.  3.  Be  it  further  Ordoined,  That  every  person  who  has 
obtained  licenses  as  aforesaid,  for  the  selling  of  beer,  soda  water 
and  lemonade,  is  hereby  prohibited  from  selling  spirituous  or  vinous 
liquors,  under  penalty  of  from  twenty-five  to  fifty  dollars;  one-half 
to  the  use  of  the  city,  and  the  other  half  to  the  informer. 

Art.  4.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  persons  who  have 
obtained  one  or  more  licenses  as  aforesaid,  are  forbidden,  under 
a  penalty  of  fifty  dollars,  from  transferring  or  selling  the  same  to 
others;  and  the  receiver  of  said  license  shall  be  subject  to  the  same 
penalty,  and  said  license  may  be  withdrawn  by  the  Mayor,  in  case 
of  repeated  contraventions  of  this  article.  And  any  person  who 
shall  continue  in  the  before-mentioned  occupation,  after  the  Mayor 
shall  have  withdrawn  said  license,  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  twenty- 
five  dollars  for  every  week  he  shall  so  continue;  one-half  to  the 
use  of  the  city,  and  the  other  half  to  the  informer. 

Art.  5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  every  person  who  shall  not 
comply  with  article  1  of  this  ordinance,  shall  be  liable  to  a  penalty 
of  not  less  than  twenty-five,  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars,  for  each 
and  every  contravention. 

Art.  6.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  a 
person,  keeping  public  billiard  tables  and  tenpin  alleys,  to  prevent 
all  persons  in  his  house  from  disturbing  by  cries,  songs  or  other- 
wise, the  peace  and  tranquility  of  the  neighborhood. 


AN    ORDINANCE  PROHIBITING   MORE   THAN  ONE  BAR  UNDER  ONE 

LICENSE. 

Adopted  March  18,  1846. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  not  more  than  one  bar  for  the  retail 
of  spirituous  liquors  can  be  kept  under  one  license,  except  in 
rooms  that  are  contiguous,  and  only  separated  by  a  partition. 


AN  ORDINANCE  TO  ESTABLISH  A  UNIFORM  RATE  OF  LICENSES  ON 
PROFESSIONS,  CALLINGS  AND  OTHER  BUHN1.SS.  PUBLIC  AND 
PRIVATE  VEHICLES,  &r. 

Adopted  December  11,  1861. 
Be  it   Ordained  by  the  Mayor  and  Covncil  of  the  City  of  Carrollton, 

That  from  and  after  the  first  day  of  January,  1862,  the  licenses 
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professions,  callings  and  other  business,  throughout  the.  City 
of  Oarrollton,  shall  be  fixed,  assessed  and  collected  annually,  at 
the  rates  and  sums  specially  set  forth  in  the  following  sections, 
and  subject  to  the  conditions  hereinafter  named: 

Sec.  1.  Every  tavern  or  coffee-house  keeper,  or  retailer  of  liquors 
and  wines  by  the  drink,  shall  pay  slOO. 

Sec.  2.  Every  general  store,  selling- spirituous  or  malt  liquors,  or 
wines,  not  less  than  one  pint,  not  to  be  drank  on  the  premises,  $100. 

Sec.  3.  Every  g-cneral  store,  excluding  spirituous  and  malt 
liquors,  and  wines,  $50, 

Sec.  4.  Every  grocery  store,  excluding  spirituous  and  mall 
liquors,  and  wines,  $20;  and  with  liquors  and  wines,  to  be  sold  in 
quantities  not  less  than  a  pint,  $10. 

,    Sec  5.  Every  dry  goods,  feed,  hardware,  glass  or  crockery  store, 
$20. 

Sec  6.  Every  clothing  and  shoe  store,  selling  clothing  and  shoes, 
not  their  own  manufacture,  $20. 

Sec  T.  Every  public  billiard  table,  tenpin  alley,  pool  table,  pistol 
gallery,  or  owner  thereof,  shall  pay  $10. 

Sec  8.  Every  public,   subscription  or  society  ball,  $10. 

Sec  !>.  Every  theatre,  shuw,  eircus  or  other  amusement,  for  each 
performanee,  $10. 

Sec  10.  Every  public  cart,  carriage,  cab,  ear,  buggy,  wagon  or 
dray,  drawn  by  one  or  more  horses  or  kine,  $10. 

Sec.  11.  Every  private  wagon,  cart  or  dray,  drawn  by  one  or 
more  horses  or  kine,  $3. 

Sec  12.  Every  resident  peddler  or  hawker,  $25. 

Sec  13.  Every  non-resident  peddler  or  hawker,  $50. 

Sec  14.  Every  soda  and  mineral  water  shop;  every  cigar  shop; 
every  fruit  stand  or  shop;  every  cake  stand  or  shop,  shall  pay  $5. 

Sec  15.  Every  oyster  shop,  excluding  liquors  and  wines,  $5. 

Sec  1G.  Every  livery  stable,  including  carriages,  and  excluding 
carts  and  wagons,  shall  pay  $50. 

Sec  IT.  Every  auctioneer  or  auction  store,  $10. 

Sec.  18.  Every  beer-house   selling  wines  and  malt  liquors,  $40. 
I  9.  Every  drug  and  apothecary  store,  shall  pay  $20. 

Sec.  20.  Every  beer  bottler,  or  other  person  selling  beer,  wines 
or  cordials  in  this  city,  away  from  his  premises,  shall  pay  $40. 

21.  Every  coal  yard,  every  saw  mill,    every  brick  yard, 
$50;  every  lumber  yard,  $25. 

Sec  22.  Every  street  musician  or  singer,  $10. 

Sec  '2'-',.   Every  physician,  lawyer  or  dentist,  $10. 

24.  Every  non-resident  mineral  or  soda  water  seller,  shall 
pay  $50. 

Sec  25.  Every  soap  cart,  selling  a  box  of  soap  of  not  less  than 
twenty-five  pounds,  S20. 

Sec  26.  Every  non-resident  beer  bottler,  or  other  person,  selling 
beer,  wines  nr  cordials,  $50. 

Sec  27.  Every  rfon-rcsident  seller  of  crackers,  cakes  or  candy,  $20. 

Ski'.  28.  Every  dairy  for  sale  of  milk,  containing  from  five  to' 


ten  cows,  $5;  from  ten  to  fifteen  cows,  S10;  and  over  fifteen 
•cows,  $25.* 

Sec.  29.  Every  furniture  store,  $10. 

Sec.  30.  Every  retail  store  not  enumerated  above,  $20. 

Sec  31.  Every  wholesale  store,  $50. 

Sec  32.  Every  charcoal  peddler,  $5  a  year  for  residents,  end°$10 
a  year  for  non-residents. 

Be  it  Ordained,  Sfc.}  That  any  person  requiting  any  of  the  above 
licenses,  for  purposes  therein  specified,  and  failing  to  take  out  the 
same  before  the  1Mb  of  January,  of  each  year,  except  those  for 
one  day  and  night,  shall  pay  a  line  of  not  less  than  $10,  nor  more 
than  $25;  and  all  laws  or  parts  of  laws,  conflicting  with  this 
ordinance,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby  repealed. 

Be  it  Ordained,  l\-c,  That  the  price  of  all  licenses  must  be  paid 
in  advance,  except  those  over  $50,  of  which  the  first  half  must  be 
paid  in  cash,  and  the  balance  in  a  note  due  on  the  1st  July,  next 
ensuing1,  and  endorsed  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Mayor;  and  on 
the  production  of  the  Treasurer's  receipt  for  the  payment,  as  afore- 
said, the  Comptroller  shall  issue  a  license;  and  licenses  taken  on 
or  after  the  1st  of  July,  shall  bo  paid  entirely  in  cash. 

Be  it  Ordained,  fye.,  That  persons  taking-  out  a  license  for  the 
sale  of  spirituous  or  malt  liquors  and  wines,  shall  give  bond  and 
security  in  the  sum  of  $250.  That  all  licenses  shall  date  from  the 
1st  of  January,  except  those  required  for  any  business  opened  or 
commenced  after  January,  which  shall  date  from  the  1st  of  the 
month  in  which  the  business  was  opened,  and  only  the  pro  rata  of 
the  yearly  price  shall  be  required  for  licenses  taken  after  January, 
calculating  from  the  1st  of  the  month  in  which  the  business  was 
commenced,  or  in  which  the  license  should  be  taken,  except  those 
given  for  one  day  and  night,  and  those  the  price  of  which  is  $10, 
and  under;  and  no  license  shall  be  tranferred. 

*Sec.  28  amended,  February  5, 1862,  to  read  thus:  Every  keeper  of  a  dairy,  shall  pay  $2Q. 


MARKKT. 

AN  ORDINANCE  IX   RELATION   TO  THE  MARKET. 

.  May  :!,  is  is. 

Amended  December  8,  1854,  and  February  9,  i 

Ai;t.  1.  Beit  Ordained,  That  a  market  for  the  Bale  of  butchers' 
meat,  and  also  for  vegetables,  is  established  from  and  after  the 
11th  day  of  May.  1  18,  in  the  market-house  erected  in  Dublin 
street,  by  the  corporal  ion. 

2.  Beit  further  Ordained,  That  ad  the  butchers'  meat,  including 
beef,  veal,  mutton  and  pork,  and  all  les,  musl  be   brought 

to  said  market  to  he  sold;  and  every  person  selling  or  exposing  for 
sale,  any  butchers'  meat  or  vegetables   in  the  street,  i  C  el  <  where 


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in  this  city,  during-  the  hours  mentioned  in  Article  3,  shall  pay  a 
fine  for  each  violation,  of  five  dollars,  if  a  free  person;  and  if  a 
slave,  the  master  shall  pay  the  fine. 

Art.  3.  as  amended  December  3,  1856.  Be  it  further  Ordained, 
"That  said  market  shall  be  opened  on  week  daj's  at  throe  o'clock, 
A.  M.,  and  closed  at  twelve,  M.;  and  on  Sundays,  said  market  shall 
be  opened  at  two  o'clock,  A.  M.,  and  closed  at  twelve,  M.;  and  for 
the  convenience  of  butchers  and  others  renting  stalls,  the  farmer 
shall  keep  said  market  open  from  the  1st  of  May  to  the  1st  of 
September,  from  six  to  eight  o'clock,  P.  M. ;  from  the  1st  of  Sep- 
tember to  the  1st  of  May,  from  five  to  seven  o'clock,  P.  M.,  under 
a  fine  of  $5  for  each  day  he  so  neglects  to  do." 

Art.  4.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  during  market  hours,  the 
butchers  shall  occupy  their  respective  stalls  in  said  market. 

Art.  5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  butchers  shall  pay  to  the 
farmer  of  the  market,  or  to  a  collector  appointed  by  the  Mayor  and 
Council,  for  the  rent  of  the  stands,  eight  feet,  respectively  occupied 
by  them,  fifty  cents,  and  for  every  head  of  horned  cattle,  whether  of 
fresh  or  salt  meat,  fifty  cents;  and  for  every  head  of  veal,  mutton, 
pork  or  venison,  twenty  cents;  provided,  that  whenever  a  fore- 
quarter  of  veal  shall  weigh  more  than  forty  pounds,  the  farmer 
or  collector  of  the  corporation  may  exact  fifty  cents  for  the  head 
of  veal.  And  every  sausage,  vegetable,  fish,  game  or  coffee  stand, 
not  occupying  more  than  eight  feet  of  the  outside  walls,  inside  of 
the  market,  shall  pay  twenty  cents  per  day. 

Art.  6.  Beit  further  Ordained,  That  the  Mayor  is  authorized  to 
rent  out  stands  of  eight  feet  each,  in  space,  on  the  outside  walls, 
inside  of  the  market,  at  the  rate  of  twenty  cents  per  day,  during 
market  hours,  to  retailers  of  vegetables,  eggs,  indian  corn,  poultry, 
and  all  other  provisions,  such  as  are  sold  on  the  footway  of  other 
markets. 

Art.  7.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  any  person  wishing  to 
obtain  a  stall  or  stand  in  said  market,  shall  apply  in  writing,  to 
the  Mayor  of  the  city.  Said  application  shall  be  duly  sworn  to  before 
a  magistrate,  or  any  other  person  duly  authorized  to  administer 
oaths,  that  the  stall  he  applies  for  is  for  his  own  individual  use, 
and  that  he  is  not  applying  for  any  other  person,  either  directly 
or  indirectly,  and  the  written  permission  or  certificate  obtained, 
shall  specify  the  number  of  the  same;  and  said  person  shall  have 
the  right  to  occupy  said  stall  or  stalls,  so  long  as  he  continues  to 
pay  the  rent  or  fees  for  the  same,  or  which  may  be  fixed  by  the 
Mayor  and  Council,  or  otherwise  complies  with  the  ordinances 
governing  said  market.  No  person  can  hold  more  than  two  stalls, 
neither  shall  he  transfer,  or  dispose  of  the  same,  without  a  previous 
notice  to,  and  consent  of  the  Mayor,  aforesaid.  The  Comptroller 
shall  keep  a  book  containing  the  names  of  those  persons  renting 
stalls,  and  in  which  an  entry  of  all  transfers  shall  be  made. 

Art.  8.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  any  person  suffering  his 
stall  to  remain  unoccupied  for  two  days,  and  who  neglects  or 
refuses  to  pay  the  rent  thereof,  shall  forfeit  his  right  to  said  stall. 


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Art.  9.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  any  butcher  or  other  person 
selling,  or  exposing  for  sale,  the  meat  of  any  animal  that  died  of 
a  distemper,  or  which  is  tainted  or  unfit  for  use,  shall  pay  a  fine 
of  from  twenty-five  to  one  hundred  dollars;  and  the  Commissary 
shall  cause  such  meat  to  be  thrown  into  the  river. 

Art.  10.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  within  the  half  hour  imme- 
diately after  closing  the  market,  each  butcher  or  occupant  of 
stalls  shall  cause  them  to  be  scraped  and  cleansed,  together  with 
the  closets  and  drawers  attached,  under  a  penalty  of  five  dollars  for 
each  offence. 

Art.  11.  Beit  further  Ordained,  That  all  persons  selling  meat 
at  said  market  shall  be  cleanly  dressed,  under  a  penalty  of  three 
dollars  for  each  offence. 

Art.  12,  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  persons  are  forbidden 
to  stand,  sit  or  lie  upon  the  stalls  or  tables  in  said  market,  under 
a  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  offence. 

Art.  13.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  is  forbidden  to  all  hawkers 
or  peddlers,  to  sell  goods  or  merchandise  in  said  market,  or  on  the 
footways  thereof,  under  a  penalty  of  five  dollars  for  each  offence. 

Art.  14.  Be.  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  Mayor  and  Council 
shall  appoint  an  inspector,  (the  Commissary,)  whose  duty  it  shall 
be  to  see  the  regulations  established,  or  to  be  established,  for  the 
government  of  the  same,  adhered  to;  and  it  shall  also  be  his  duty 
to  have  in  said  market,  weights  of  the  legal  standard,  to  be  used 
by  any  person  who  may  think  they  have  been  cheated  in  their 
purchases,  and  when  such  is  the  fact,  the  vendor  shall  pay  a  fine 
of  $5  for  each  offence. 

Art.  15.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  farmer  or  lessee  shall, 
within  three  days  after  the  adjudication,  furnish  his  own  promis- 
sory notes,  endorsed  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Mayor,  or  neglecting 
which,  a  new  adjudication  shall  be  ordered  by  the  Mayor,  at  the 
risk  of  the  first  bidder, 

Art.  16.  Beit  further  Ordained,  That  for  the  better  security  and 
payment  of  said  notes,  a  lien  shall  be  retained  on  the  revenues  of 
said  market,  and  in  default  of  the  payment  of  any  of  the  aforesaid 
notes,  the  corporation  may  receive  said  revenue;  and  the  Mayor 
shall  take  measures  so  to  do,  three  days  after  the  protest  of 
said  notes. 

Art.  It.  Be  il  further  Ordained,  That  the  farmer  or  lessee  of  said 
market  shall  not  be  entitled  to  receive  any  other  fees  than  those 
hereby  established;  and  said  farmer  shall,  at  his  own  expense,. 
furnish  the  necessary  implements  for  cleansing  and  sweeping  said 
market;  and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  cause  it  to  be  completely 
cleansed  each  day,  immediately  after  market  hours,  under  a  fine 
of  $10  for  each  day  he  neglects  so  to  do. 

Art.  IS.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  Mayor  and  Council 
shall  cause  the  said  market-house  and  the  walls  and  pillars  thereof, 
internally,  as  well  as  externally,  to  be  annually  whitewashed  or 
painted. 

Art.  19.     Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  farmer  or  lessee  of  the 


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market  shall  not  carry  on,  directly  or  indirectly,  any  business, 
nor  occupy  any  stall  or  stand  in  said  market,  daring  the  term  of 
his  lease,  under  any  pretext  whatever;  should  the  lessee  or  farmer 
violate  the  said  condition,  the  Council  may  declare  Jhe  lease  for- 
feited, and  order  the  unexpired  term  of  the  said  lease  to  be  sold 
on  account,  and  at  the  risk  of  the  farmer  or  lessee  thus  violating. 


AX  ORDINANCE  .SUPPLEMENTAL  TO  AN  ORDINANCE  IN  RELATION 
TO  THE  MARKET,  ADOPTED  MAY  3d,  1848,  AND  RE-ADOPTED 
MARCH  19th,  1855. 

Adopted  December  12,  1800. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  City  of 
Carrollton;  That  when  application  is  made  to  the  Maj'or,  in  accord- 
ance with  article  7,  of  the  original  ordinance  for  the  use  of 
a  stall  or  stand  in  the  market,  the  oath  of  the  applicant  shall 
contain  a  declaration  that  the  applicant  is  not  the  lessee  of  the 
market,  and  is  in  no  way  interested,  either  directly  or  indirectly, 
in  the  lease  or  revenues  of  the  market. 

Art.  2.  Beit  further  Ordained,  That  the  lease  of  the  market,  and 
the  collection  of  the  revenues  thereof,  .shall  not  be  transferred 
without  the  consent  of  the  Mayor  and  Council,  previously  obtained, 
under  a  penalty  of  $50.  t 

Art.  3.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  persons  are  forbidden 
to  commit  any  nuisance,  or  acts  offensive  to  decency  inside  the 
market  house,  or  deposit  any  offensive,  tainted  or  decayed  meats, 
vegetables  or  other  matter  therein,  under  a  penalty  of  $5  for  each 
offence.  All  persons  a-re  forbidden  to  make  use  of  and  give  utterance 
to  oaths  and  obscene  and  vulgar  language  and  noises  in  said 
market,  under  a  penalty  of  $5  for  each  offence;  all  vendors  in  said 
market-house  are  required  to  be  clean  in  person  and  dress,  and 
civil  and  polite  to  purchasers  and  others  visiting  the  market;  they 
shall  not  refuse  to  supply  meats,  vegetables  or  other  articles 
not  sold,  to  persons  who  will  pay  for  them,  under  a  penalty  of  $5 
for  each  offence ;  and  on  due  proof  being  made  to  the  Mayor  of 
the  violation  of  this  article,  in  any  one  particular,  by  any  vendor 
in  said  market,  the  Mayor  shall  withdraw  the  permission  or 
certificate  granted  in  accordance  with  article  7,  of  the  original 
ordinance,  and  such  person  shall  not  be  allowed  the  use  of  any 
stall  or  stand  in  said  market,  at  any  time  afterwards.  The  fines 
imposed  by  this  ordinance  are  recoverable  before  an}-  competent 
magistrate,  and  all  ordinances  or  parts  of  ordinances  conflicting" 
herewith,  are  hereby  repealed. 


AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  THE  SALE  OF  THE  MARKET. 

Adopted  December  3,  1856. 
Be  it  Ordained,  That  said  market  shall  hereafter  be  sold   by  the- 


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Mayor,  on  the  first  Monday  in  December,  of  each  year,  and  he  shall 
give  ten  days'  previous  notice  of  such  sale,  l>y  advertisements  in 
the  official  journal  of  the  city,  or  by  posting  in  three  public  places. 


A  RESOLUTION  CONCERNING  VEGETABLES. 

Adopted  September  8,  1852. 

Resolved,  Thai   hereafter,   no  vegetables   shall  be   sold  on  any  of 
the  butchers'  stalls  in  the  market  of  Carrollton. 


OFFICERS. 

AN  ORDINANCE  RELATIVE  TO  SECURITIES  OF  OFFICERS  UNDER  THE 

CORPORATION. 

Adopted  May  1,  1845. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  in  all  cases  wherein  security  is 
required  for  the  faithful  performance  of  the  duties  of  any  office 
which  may  exist  under  the  authority  of  the  Council,  the  person 
elected  shall  either  give  his  own  bond,  with  mortgage  on  his  own 
property,  unincumbered,  to  the  amount  of  the  security  required,  or 
shall  give  his  own  bond,  with  one  or  more  good  solvent  sureties, 
who  shall  be  owners  of  real  estate  in  the  Parish  of  Jefferson, 
unincumbered,  to  the  amount  of  the  bond,  and  on  a  vote  of  a 
majority  of  the  Council  to  that  effect,  new  sureties  shall  be  furnished, 
within  the  time  the  Council  shall  determine,  in  default  of  which, 
a  new  election  shall  be  held. 


AN  ORDINANCE   PROVIDING   FOR  THE  PERFORMANCE  OF  CERTAIN 
DUTIES  OF  THE  MAYOR,  IN  CASE  OF  HIS  INABILITY  OR  ABSENCE. 

Adopted  July  1,  184G. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  in  case  of  absence  or  inability  of 
the  Mayor,  to  sign  warrants  for  the  payment  of  salaries  or  other 
claims  against  this  corporation,  duly  authenticated,  the  chairman 
of  the  Finance  Committee  be,  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  sign 
the  same. 


AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  THE  BOOKS  &  RECORDS  OF  OFFICERS. 

Adopted  May  12,  1852. 
Ant.  1.     Be  it  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  officers 


•  i   this  *  ity.  •  -.ifi-ly,  ami   from    injury,  all   the  Is  and 

that   may  appertain  t.>  their  respective 
(ifl'uvs,  and  they  are  hereby  prohibited  from  taking  or  aUowin 
be  taken,  any  of  the  said  books  or  tec  irdi  onl  of  (heir  respective 
.  without  the  special  order  or  consent  of  the  Oonncil. 

.  That  the  officers  6f  this  city  may 

pies  of   any  part  of  their  books  or  records,  t < » 

quiring  the  same  for  legal  purposes;  and  the  Secretary 

.ni'l  Comptroller  shall  countersign  the  same,  and  attach  the  seal 

of  the  city,   for  which  be  may  charge  twenty->fn  .  and  the 

Doers  may  charge  the  same  fees  that  are  allowed  by 

law  to  Notaries  Public  for  copies  of  their  records. 


i 

AN  ORDINANCE  RELATIVE  To    IXDEXKS  AND  BOOKS  OF  OFFIOl 

Adopted  August  12,  1861. 

Ai;T.  L.  B      '  '  >    I     led  by   the  Miiyar  and    Council  of  the    City   of 
,    That    it    shall    be,    and    is    hereby  made  the  duty  01  the 

tary  of  this  Council,  t<>  number  the  pages,  and  place  plain 
intelligible  marginal  notes  ton  each  page  of  the  journal  of  the 

iii>-  Mayor  and  Council,  which  he  is  bound  to  k 
rding  to  law. 

further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  l"'  and  is  hereby 
made  the  duty  of  every  officer  under  this  Council,  having  a  I 

or  books  t<>  keep,  t<>  annex    a  plain  and    distinct    index    to   each  of 
.  books,  which  index  must  he    made   in   alphabetical  cider,  and 

show  the  number  of  the  page  on  which  the  information  sought  can 

he  found;  and  each  and  every  officer  shall  make  a  note  on  the  hack  of 
each  and  every  report  he  may  send  to  the  Council,  and  on  each 
and  every  paper,  and  bundle  of  papers,  h«'  may  hie  away  in  the 
archives  of  his  office,  to  show  wiiat  are  the  contents  of  such  paper 
and  bundles,  and  on  what  page  of  his  hook  it  is  entered. 

'  further  Ordained,  That  all  the  hooks,  indexes,  sta- 
tionery and  blanks,  necessary  for  the  performance  of  the  duties  of 
the  officers  of  this  city,  shall  he  furnished  by  the  .Mayor  and  Council, 
at  their  own  cost  and  expense,  and  shall  be  Considered  the  property 
of  the  Mayor  and  Council,  Subject  t"  their  inspection  at  all  tit 
aid  any  officer  or   other  person  who   shall   take    away,    destroy  01 

mutilate  any  of  the  records,  maps,  plans  or  indexes  of  the  city, 

shall  pay  a  line  of  $50,  and  be    bound    to    replace-  the  same,  at  his 

own  expi 


AN  ORDINANCE  OONCEENING  OFFICERS. 

Adopted  June  12,  1861. 

Be  it  Ordained  by  tin-  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  City  of  Carrollton, 
That  the  Mayor  and  Council  shall    annually  elect    in   the  month  of 


October,    the   following  named  officers^of  tiro  corporation,   to  be 
chosen  from  the  qualified  voters  of  .  lo-wit: 

A  Comptroller,  who  shall  also  acl  as  Seci  the  Mayor  and 

Council,  and  as  Secretary  to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Public 
Schools. 

A  Treasurer,  who  shall  also  acl  as  Collector  of  Taxes. 

A  Commissary,  who  shall  also  act  as  Sexton. 

A  Surveyor;  a  Printer;  an  Attorney;  a  Pound  Keeper. 

Three' Assessors;  one  Principal  and  two  Assistants;  and  such 
other  officers  as  may  be  determined  on,  previous  to  the  day  of 
election. 

2,     Be  it  further  Ordained,  Thai   the  term  oi  of  all  the 

officers  of  the  corporation  shall  commence  on  <''■.■'  firs!  day  of 
November  of  each  year;  they  shall  look  to  the  charter  and  the 
ordinances  of  the  city  for  their  duties;  and  previous  to  entering 
upon  them,  shall  be  sworn  before  a  proper  officer,  and  shall 
bond  and  security  in  the  manner  and  amount  named  by  the  .\i 
and  Council:  ami  failing  to  thus  qualify  within  five  days  after 
election,  the  person  failing,  shall  be  considered  as  having  declined 

the  office, 

Be   it   further  Ordained,  That    the    salaries    and   CO 
d   and  paid   to  the  officers  of  the  corporation,  shall   be  in  full 
compensation  for  all  services  rendered  to  the   corporation  in  their 
official  capacities,  and  no  fee  or  extra  compensation  shall  in  any 
be  paid  to  any  officer  for  the  performance  ofdutii  s  appertaining 
to  his  office,  except  in  cases  wh(  lutics  are  imp 

on  them,  which  shall  be  decided  by  the  wh<  I     .  f  the   Mayor 

and  Council   present    in   session;    neither  shall    the    salary  oi 
officer  be  diminished  during liis  term. 

4 .  Be  if  fa  rfher  Orda  i  ne&,  That  ev<  i 

shall,  upon  the  expiration  of  his  term  oJ  office,  rom, 

or  resignation  thereof,  forthwith,  on  demand,  deliver  to  hi 
BOr  in  office  all  money,  hooks,   pap.  .  ants 

ore\  of  debt  in  his  hands,  and  all  property  in  hi  ion, 

belonging    to    or  delivered  to  him  by  any  city,  or 

by  the  : 

pertaining  to  c  all  which,  he  shall  taJ 

pt,  and  tile    tint    s.  bh  with  with    the    Compt 

entered  in  his  bo<  ks.     tn 

the  time  .  Kail 

he  tunic!  the  Com| 

5.  Be  it   fwither  (> 

cribed  by  this   ordina  tc<  .    tli  in  or  out 

office,  shall  1  !00, 

and  U'm  less  than 

6. 
or  di 

had  according 
officer  for  bis 


I 
":   be  at 
approba- 

i  :'  bis 

ill  f;iil  to  v.  .1  .!.>]>- 

inert, 
ball  ima  brm, 

■  tli«" 
officer  in  ■  the  time 

lie  d 

who  Bhall 
rform  an  '  [ayor 

and  duties,  shall  I 

That   in 

itify  any 

in  writing,  and   shall    fully 

lution  or  law  on 

.!  101 

law.  and  a  recorded  minui 

Iii  1 1  icilma; 

if  Hi--  Ii:  expiration  of 

the  duties  of 
rthwith,  ami  a  new  election  shall  be  ordered  and  held 

:;s  mafic  vacant. 


AX  ORD]  DONG  01 

i  J  u   ■  26,  L861. 

f  Car  <>U ton, 
ion  of  lip-  city,  and  the  c 

venience  of  the  people,  it  shall  be  and  is  hei  tho  duty  of 

to  keep  liii-ii-  i'  and 

rami 

ptrollerand  Treasurer,  from  1".  '  .        '  lock  P.  If. 

Commissary,  Surveyor  and  Mayor,  from   11    o'clock  A.  M.  t<>  \1 
o'clock  M. 

•..nicy,  from  '.'  o'clock  A.  M.  to  1<>  i  'clo  •'    A. 


'.:  TlMUM'  INTHLT. 

A<!  '  1,1861, 

That  the  f  the  Mayor,  the  .    lolicemen 


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and  watchmen  shall  be  payable  monthly,  and  the  -Mayor  is  author- 
ized to  draw  and  issue  his  warrants  for  such  salaries  as  they 
respectively  fall  due;  provided,  that  this  shall  not  apply  to  the 
paymenl  of  •  claimed  by  or  due  to  any  officer,  until 

such  claims  have  been  approved  by  the  Council. 


AX  ORDINANCE  FIXING  Cl  I]  :')\  OF  OFFICERS  FOR  CERTAIN 

DUTIES. 

Adopted  October  16,  I 

Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Mayor  <  7  of  the  City  of  Carrolllon, 

That  for  taking  the  census  the  Commissary  shall  be  paid  the  sum 
of  $25,  each  year:  and  for  collecting  and  paying  over  timber  and 
boat  taxes  or  charges,  he  shall  he  paid  five  per  cent,  on  the  amounl 
paid  into  the  treasury.     For   collecting  and   pa;.  r   to   the 

Treasurer,  taxes,  lines  or  other  claims  of  the   city,  the  Attorney 
shall  he  paid  two  and  a  half  per  cent,  on  the  an 
For  all  duties  performed  as  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Fir 
Public  Schools,  the  y  shall  be  paid  $50  per  annum. 

lie  it  further  <■  all    cla.i;  ust  be 

approved^By  the  Council  before  bei  I,   and  in  i  hall 

an  officer  of  this  city  retain  the  money  collected  by  him  i'<r 
payment  of  b  as  or  salaries  due  him.     Any  officer  violating 

the  provisions  of  this  hall  be  liable  to  a 

125  for  each  offence,  and  ice. 


IRDINANCE  RELATIVE  TO  BONDS  AND  SECURn  ERS. 

Adopted  October  30,  1 

He  it  Ordained  by  the  Mayor  avid  Council  of  th   • 
That  in  all  cases  where  bond  and    i  curil 
elccled  to  office  by  the  Mayor  and  Council,  it  shall  be  the  dufr 
the  Mayor   •<>   approve  and  ac  iich  bond 

shall  come  within  the  meaning  of  the  ordinance  ur.'- 

ties  of  officers,  and  a!  the  next  meeting  thereafter,  report  the  same 
to  the  Council  for  record. 


OFFENC]  D   NUISANC1 

ORDINANi 

Ad..]. led  di;  ■  d. 

Be  it    cnadrd  by  >  '  ' 

Thai  in  prevent  d  .  and  to  provide  for  Ihe  pi 

public  •  and  </u: 


I.     N  i  shall  deface  or  injure  any  building  or  buildings, 

wall,  fen  .  awning-post,  sign  or  othei   property,  private  or 

public,  in  this  city,  by  cutting,  breaking,  daubing  with  paint, 
marking,  writing,  or  in  any  other  v. 

B,     No  person  shall  post  up  any  baud-bill,  writing,  advertisement, 

notice,  paper  or  cloth,  board  or  other  article  whatsoever,  on  any 

house  or  building,  shed,  awning,  wall,  Bign  or  fence,  without  the 

»ent  of  the  owner  previously  given ;  and  no  consent   shall   be 

implied. 

::.  No  person  shall  fire  or  discharge  any  gun,  pistol,  fowling  piece, 
cannon  or  fire  anus,  within  the  improved  limits  of  the  city,  or  set 
fire  to,  discharge  or  throw  any  fire  brand,  cracker,  rocket,  Bquib, 
hi  or  other  ignited  or  combusible  material,  or  set  fire  to  any 
piles  of  wood  or  lumber,  within  Baid  limits,  without  the  license  of 
1  iouncil  previously  obtained;  provided,  nothing  herein  contained 
shall  apply  to  military  reviews  or  parades,  or  b>  the  lawful  use  of 
weaj 

4.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  to  neat  a  drum,  blow 
a  horn  or  sound  :i  trumpet,  make  a  false  alarm  of  lire,  ring  bells, 
beat  kettles  or  pans,  or  make  any  noise  to  alarm  or  annoy  residents 
or  others,  in    the    streets  or  public  places;  provided,  that  this  pro- 

.11  not  apply  to  any  militia,  or  to  any  peaceable  procession, 

til  ■  ■  ■  cases  in  which  auctioneers  are  permitted  to  beat  drums. 
!    is  unlawful  to  abuse,  provoke  or  disturb  any  person;  to 

,  '.  or  to  appear  masked  or  disguised,  in  the  street 
or  any  public  place;  or  to  use  indecent  or  vulgar  language  or 
Bigns;  or  to  commit  any  nuisance  offensive  to  public  decency;  or 
commit  any  lewdness  on  any  street  or  levee,  cemetery,  public 
squareor  other  public  place,  in  any  open  lot,  on,  or  under  any  wharf 
or  landing,  or  in  any  open  house  exposed  to  public  view. 

<i.  All  persons  are  forbidden  to  bathe  in  the  river  or  ponds  in 
front  of  the  city  or  elsewhere,  publicly,  within  the  limits  of  the 
city  during  the  daylight;  and  all  persons  are  forbidden  to  strip  or 
expose  the  naked  person  or  body  in  any  portion  of  the  city,  on  the 
banks  of  the  river,  or  in  the  river  or  ponds. 

7.  All  persons  are  forbidden,  and  arc  prohibited  from  throwing 
or  depositing  any  dead  animal,  offal,  blood,  filth,  manure,  feculent 
mat:,  r,   C  >ri  upt    or  putrid  water  or  any  matter  of  any  kind  which 

may  be  offensive  to  the  sight  or  smell,  or  injurious  to  the  health,  on 
any  banquette,  street,  alley,  wharf  or  any  public  place,  in  any 
gutter,  drain  or  canal,  within  the  improved  limits  of  the  city;  and 
no  person  shall  be  allowed  to  keep  or  let  remain  on  their  premises 
within  their  yards  or  private  alleys  any  of  the  articles  or  things 
mentioned  in  this  section  more  than  twenty-four  hours. 

Ml  persons  are  forbidden  to  throw  Hour,  water, or  any  other 

substance,  on  any  person    passing    along    the   street  or  any  public 

place;  and  all  persons  are  forbidden  to  obstruct  the  passage  or 
flow  of  water  of  any  gutter,  ditch,  pipe  or  drain  in  this  city,  or  in 
any  manner  dam  the  same. 
9i     It  shall  not  he  lawful  to  move  or  cause  to  be  carried  away, 


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any  earth  or  sand  from  any  street,  square,  walk  or  commons,  or 
from  the  levee;  and  all  persons  arc  forbidden  to  cut,  break, 
destroy  or  move  any  of  the  plank-walks,  bridges  or  roads,  signs, 
pavements,  whether  of  brick  or  stone,  shell  roads,  dirt  roads  or  rail 
roads  in  this  city;  and  all  persons  arc  forbidden  to  destroy,  injure 
or  move  any  of  the  trees,  planted  in  the  streets  or  public  squares, 
or  on  the  sidewalks  of  this  city,  according  to  law. 

10.  All  persons  arc  forbidden  to  ride,  lead  or  drive  a  horse  or 
other  animal  on  the  sidewalks,  promenades,  levees  or  public  squares 
of  this  city,  and  all  persons  are  forbidden  to  hitch  or  fasten  any 
horse  or  any  other  animal  on  or  to  any  of  said  places,  or  in  such 
a  manner  and  at  such  place's  thai  it  may  gel  on  those  places;  or 
to  obstruct  the  sidewalks  or  streel  crossings  wjth  any  cart,  carriage 
or  other  vehicle;  provided  this  does  not  apply  to  persons  crossing 
the  levee  at  the  end  of  streets,  or  the  banquettes  to  and  from  their 

•  premises. 
11.  No  person  shall  keep  or  permit  to  run  at  large  any  dog  or 
other  animal,  which  shall  by  barking,  biting,  running  after  persons, 
howling,  or  in  any  other  way  or  manner  disturb  the  comfort  or 
quiet  of  any  person  or  persons  whomsoever;  and  no  owner  of  any 
deformed  animal,  or  animal  affected  with  the  glanders,  or  other 
contagious  distemper,  shall  suffer  the  same  to  roam  at  large  on 
any  street  or  levee,  on  the  commons  or  in  the  woods,  and  it  shall 
not  be  lawful  for  any  goat  to  roam  at  large,  or  to  be  fastened  on  the 
streets,  levees  or  public  places. 
./  12.  No  wild  and  ferocious  animal  shall  be  kept  within  the 
'  limits  of  this  city,  on  the  premises  of  individuals,  or  in  menageries, 
unless  such  animal  be  under  the  charge  of  an  armed  guard,  day  ami 
night;  and  all  persons  are  forbidden  to  let  loose  or  permit  any  wild 
or  any  ferocious  or  vicious  animal  to  go  at  large. 

13.  No  person  shall  exhibit  or  cause  to  be  exhibited  in  this 
city  any  bull  or  bear  fight,  or  any  dog  tight,  or  pugilistic  contest, 
or  make  any  immoral  exhibition,  or  form  processions  for  the  purpose 
of  attending  such  exhibitions,  or  any  immoral  or  unlawful  purpose; 
and  no  person  shall  keep  a  cock  pit,  or  any  place  for  any  immoral 
exhibition,  or  for  any  animal  tights  or  contests. 

14.  All  persons  are  forbidden  to  expose,  circulate,  offer  for  sale, 
sell  or  distribute,  any  obscene,  scandalous  or  libelous  book,  print, 
newspaper,  pamphlet,  circular  or  periodical,  caricature,  picture, 
drawing,  statue  or  other  object  whatever,  of  any  immoral  or  scan- 
dalous nature,  or  calculated  to  excite  scandal,  immorality  or 
disturbance  of  the  public  peace  or  tranquility. 

15.  No  person  shall  sell  or  oner  for  sale,  or  keep  exposed  in 
any  public  place,  any  blown,  stale,  imperfect  or  unwholesome  provi- 
sion, or  tainted  meat  or  fish,  or  vegetable,  or  any  animal  which  lias 
died  of  disease,  or  any  impure  or  unsound  food  whatever;  and  no 
person  shall  fraudulently  adulterate  for  the  purpose  of  sale,  any 
substance  intended  for  food;  or  any  liquor  intended  for  drink;  or 
any  drug  or  medicine,  with  any  sabstance  in  any  manner  injurious 
to  health.     And  all  i"  forbidden  to  keep  within  the  limits 


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of  tii  or  dams  iny 

putrefaction;  :ui<!   no 
i  land  or  •  any  such  articles  a< 

the  landing,  or  oq  theriver,  or  brii  ich  into 

the  city  fr 

16.  In  lilli 

as  ;  ■  to  run  oil'  on   th<  .    :ni.l   nol  on  the 

:u1  j.t  I  ii  shall  ,  partly  (ill  H|> 

any  lol  with  manure  or  oth 

1 7.  ( kvens,  stables,  well  i  and  privie  Bhall  no1  be  placed  within 
three  feel  of  any  publi  nor  within  three  feet 
of  the  line  of  adjoining  pro]                       hall  not  have  an  issue  on 

■  reel  or  public  way,  nor  propriel  »r. 

18.  The  flues  or  chii  ries, 
smith  Bhops,  foun  I  .  shall  b  the 
highesl  adjoini             i,  within  of  two  hundred  feel  from 

lid  establi  jhmenl 

19.  All  persons  a  place  any  stationary  or 
permam  i  •  of  any  of  the  public 

:•■  lev< ;•  public  squ 

of  t!  nd  all  )>(  rsons  arc  forbidden  to  leave  any  car,  ran  i 

bide,  or  any  other  article  so  as  to  obstruct 
passage  in  t  ion  of  the  streets,  public  places  or  lev< 

hut  this  planted 

according  tu  law. 

Ail  persons  arc   forbidden    to  interfere  with,   obstruct,   or 
prevent  any  officer  or  em  y  in  the  discharge  or 

of  his  duty. 

21.  All  persons  are  i  take  sand  or  dirt  from  the 
batture,  without  a  permit  previously  obtained  from  the  Surveyor  or 

acil;  and  it  shall  nol  1":  lawful  to  move  sand  or  dirt  from  the 
batture,  to  b  limits  of  OarrolU  »n. 

22.  AM  per  e  forbidden  to  ride  or  drive  any  horse  or  other 
animal  through  th<  i,  at  a  furious  rate  of  sp 

or  so  as  to  endanger  tl.  ty  person;  all   persons  are 

forbidden  to  run,  drivi  locomotive,  car,  cart,  carriage 

or  other  vehi  the  rail   roads,  side  walks, 

levees  or  public  places  of  this  c  Bpeed  than  the 

law  all....  ;  to  endanger  the  safety  of  any  person. 

•   further  (  .   That  any  person  or   persons  committing 

any  of  the  off  r  violatin  '  the  provisions  of  the  above 

aaticle  named,  shall  be   fined   D  |5,  nor  more  than  $100 

for  each  offence;  and  in  every  case  where  minors  or  slaves  \  iolate 
an  ordinance  of  this  or  guardians  of  the  minors, 

and  the  of  the  she.  pprentices  shall  i  isible 

for  the  line.    All  fines  are  recoverable  Melon-  anycourt  of  competent 

jurisdiction. 

t  further  Or  '     •  y  made  the  duty  of  the 

Commissary,  and   the   police   offi  city  I  i   report    and 


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denounce,  and  it"  is  the  duly  of  the  City  Attorney  to  prosecute 
persons  charged  with  violations  of  this  ordinance.  In  all 
cases  in  this  ordinance  where  an  act    Or  dei  lared 

unlawful,  its  continuance,  after  notice  from  the  proper  officer,  shall 
be  deemed  an  additional   i  and  the  offender  shall  be  fined 

not  less  than  $5,  nor  more  than  $25  for  hall  continue 

to  violate  the  provisions  of  this  ordinam 

Ik,  if  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Commissary 
and  all  police  officers  of  this  city  to  .take  cognizance  of  the  offe; 
and  omissions  named  in  this  and  all  ether  ordinances,  and  take 
the  necessary  steps  forthwith,  to  abate  the  nuisance  or  offence,  by 
giving  notice,  and  reporting  the  offender,  and  if  need  be,  to  arrest 
the  offender;  and  all  lings  in  such  cases  shall  be  entered 

in   the   police   records  of  the   city,  or  the   Comi  '    diary  or 

record.  It  is  also  made  their  special  duly  to"  arrest  all  runaway 
negroes,  beggars  and  vagrants,  Jo>  he  dealt  with  according  to  law. 


AX  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  HAWKERS  OH  PEDDLERS. 

Adopted  May  .11.  I-  '.:,. 

Art.  1.     BeiiO  >.  -       about,  or  cause 

in  be  hawk(  d  al  i  in  any  manner  whatever, 

within  the  limits  of  the  city  of  Carrollton,  any  produce,  provisi 
or  merchandise  generally,  wit!  ing  a  license  from 

the  Mayor,    speci!  name  of  the   person    to  if   shall 

have  been  delivered,   under  penalty  of'  a  fine  not  under  ten,  nor 
exceeding-  twenty  dollars 

Art.  2.     Be  it  further  '  I  no  slave  shall  be  permitted 

to  hold  such  license;   but  any  tree  person   having-  the    intention  to 

•e  merchandise  to  be  hawked  aboul  or  exposed  for  sale  as  above 
said,  by  one  or  mi-  claration 

■ 
license  or  lie.  :  therein    the    name  or  nai 

Buch  slavi  peddle  and  hawk  about  the 

said  merqhand  i  who  shall   h 

obtained  sucl  ever 

peddling  and  hawking,  a  li 

further  <  he  the  duly  of  the 

Commissary,  and  he  is  hen  I  andof  all  peddlers 

and  hawkers,  the  licei  se   in  ■■  '■]  within 

limits  of  the  city,  and 
the  said  offic  ir  i  -  au1  mcrchan 

mch  peddl 
and  said  peddler  shall 

•  All  the  w.  i  .  .'  UUned,"  itrv 


and  the  merchand  tained  in  virtue  of  iliis  ordinance,  shall 

be  placed  under  the  protection  of  any  justice  of  the  peace  in  the 
city,  and  remain  tisfy  all  judgments  which  may 

be  pronounced  against  the  owner  of  the  same,  as  well  for  the  fine 
as  for  amount  of  the  tax  and  lie.  • 


POUND. 

AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  BTRAYS. 

Adopted  June  11,  L851. 

Art.  J.     Be  it  Ordained,  That  a  pound  for  strays  be.  and  is  hereby 

red  to  be  established  in  this  city,  to  be  called  the  city  pound 
of  Carrollton. 

2.  That  there  shall  be  annually  elected  a  suitable  person  for 
pound  kei  per,  whose  duty  i;  shall  be  to  receive  all  strays  brought 

.  for  which  he  shall  be  entitled  I  i  charge  as  follows: 

For  each  horse,  mule  or   ass sO    7") 

For  each  cow  or  horned  animal 0  50 

For  each  hog 0  2T> 

3.  One-half  of  the  above  charges  shall  be  paid  by  the  said 
keeper  to  the  person  that  may  deliver  to  him  a  stray,  and  further, 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  keeper  to  see  all  strays  fed,  watered, 
and  provided  with  sheds  in  hot  or  inclement  weather,  for  which  he 
may  charge  as  follows: 

For  each  horse,  mule  or  ass $0  25  per  day. 

For  each  cow  or  horned  animal 0  20       " 

Foreachhog 0  10 

The  above  to  be  paid  to  him  by  the  owners  of  said  strays,  on 
claiming  the  same,  in  addition  to  the  costs  of  advertising  the  same. 
•1  It  shall  likewise  be  the  duty  of  the  keeper  of  the  pound  to 
enter  in  a  bode  to  be  kept  for  that  purpose,  the  day  on  which  he 
may  receive  any  stray,  with  a  full  description  of  the  same,  which 
book  shall  on  every  week  day  remain  open  for  the  inspection  of 
the  public.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  keeper  of  the  pound  to 
advertise  weekly  in  a  newspaper  published  in  this  city  or  parish, 
according  to  law,  all  strays  thai  may  be  in  his  possession,  giving 
a  full  description  of  the  same,  and  stating  that  unless  the  same  be 
claimed,  and  all  charges  paid  within  ten  days  from  dale  of  adver- 
tisement, the  same  will  be  sold  by  him  at  the  pound  at  public  auction, 
to  the  highest  bidder,  to  defray  the  cost  and  charges,  and  in  case 
of  such  sale,  the  keeper  shall  note  down  carefully  in  his  book, 
opposite  to  the  desi  riptionofthe  animal,  what  amount  the  animal 
sold  for,  and  to  whom;  and  after  deducting  the  amount  of  cost 
and  charges  that  he  is  entitled  to  charge,  he  shall  pay  the  remainder, 
if  any,  to  the  Treasurer,  within  twenty-four  hours  after  the  sale, 
taking  a  receipt  tor  the  same,  which  shall  be  delivered  to  the 
Comptroller  as  soon  as  possible. 


5T 

5.  The  residue  of  the  profits  of  the  sale  of  any  animal,  if  any, 
shall  be  paid  to  the  owner  of  the  same,  less  one-tenth  upon  the 
exhibition  to  this  Council,  of  satisfactory  proof  of  ownership,  and 
in  case  of  a  majority  of  this  Council  concurring'  in  any  complaint 
made  against  the  keeper  of  the  pound  for  contravening*  this  ordi- 
nance, or  for  abuse  or  f  any  animal  in  his  possession,  he 
shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  i  ot  less  than  $5,  nor  more  than  §50,  or  be 
removed  from  office. 


AN   ORDINANCE    CONCERNING    CERTAIN    DUTIES    OF  THE    POUND 

KEEPER. 

Adopted  December  10,  1851. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  pound 
keeper  of  this  city  to  make  a  detailed  monthly  report  of  the  strays 
received  and  disposed  of  during  the  month,  by  him,  being  particular 
to  describe  the  animal,  and  specify  the  costs  and  proceeds  of  sale, 
and  amount  paid  over  to  Treasurer. 


PORT    OE    LANDIIvG. 

AN    ORDINANCE    TO    REGULATE   THE   PORT    OR   LANDING  OF  THE 
CITY  OF  CARROLLTON. 
Adopted  June  13,  18G0,  and  amended  August  7,  1861. 

Original. 

1.     Be  it  Ordained 'by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  City  of  Carrotlton, 
That  art.  1  of  the  ordinance  to  regulate  thi  landing,  be 

amended  so  as  to  read: 

That  it  shall  be  and  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  Commi 
to  supervise  and  regulate  the  port  or  lauding  of  this  city,  plant 
tie  posts,  direct  steamboats  and  other  vessels,  and  all  water  crafi 
where  to  land  and  tie  up,  and  require  them  to  be  well  and  securely 
fastened  with  chains,  when  they  are  to  remain  at  the  landing  for 
any  period  over  twenty-four  hours.  He  shall  direct  and  regul 
their  landing  and  lyin  to  interfere  with  other  boats, 

or  with  the  busin  occupying  t\io  batture,  with   the 

consent  of  the  Council;  and  he  shall  collect  the  charges  hereinafter 
ed  on  all  such 

Be  it  furtherOrdain  rt.  2  of  said  ordinance  be 

so  as  to  read: 

each  steamboat,  each  steamship,  and  each  sail  vessel;  ship, 
brig,  schoonor  or  sloop,  lying  at  the  landing-,  shall  pay  the  city 
ten  dollars  per  mouth:  h  flatboat,  keelboat  or  other  small 

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water  craft,  Lying  at  the  landing,  Bhall  pay  the  city  five  dollars 
per  month;  provided,  that  this  Bection  shall  not  apply  to  any  boat, 
•1  or  water  craft  making  a  temporary  landing-,  for  reception  or 
discharge  of  passengers,  or  freight  or  other  purposes;  and  provided, 
it  does  not  apply  to  boats  to  be  broken  up  on  the  batture,  within 
ten  days  after  they  are  tied  up  there,  by  any  t  rrollton. 

:'..  Br  U  furl  her  Ordained,  That  the  charges  imposed  by  the  2d  sec- 
tion of  this  ordinance  shall  '  .  •.  and  t<>  facilitate 
tin-  matter,  lite  Comptroller  shall  counl  deliver  to  the 
Commissary,  and  charge  him  with  a  requisite  number  of  blanks, 
for  the  collection  of  which,  the  Commissary  shall  be  responsible: 
and  forthwith,  after  the  collection  of  an}- of  said  bills,  he  shall  pay 
over  the  amount  collected  to  the  City  Treasurer,  and  file  the 
hirer's  receipt  therefor  with  the  Comptroller. 

4.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  for  any  interference  with  the  Com- 
missary in  the  discharge  of  his  duty  as  laid  down  in  this  ordinance, 
and  for  any  neglect  or  refusal  to  comply  with  the  directions  of  the 
Commissary,  as  expressed  in  section  first  of  this  ordinance,  the 
person  offending  shall  be  liable  for  and  pay  a  fine  of  $25;  recover- 
able before  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction. 

■  >.  Be  i'  further  Ordained,  That  in  cases  of  neglect  or  refusal  to 
I  he  charges  imposed  by  this  ordinance,  within  twenty-four  hours 
after  demand,  and  in  cases  of  fines  incurred  as  per  section  4,  the 
I  'ommissary  is  directed  to  place  a  bill  for  the  same  in  the  hands 
of  the  City  Attorney,  for  collection  by  suit,  and  file  the  Attorney's 
receipt  for  such  bill  forthwith,  with  the  Comptroller. 

6.  Be  it  furl  her  Ordained,  That  article  G  of  the  ordinance  to  regu- 
late the  port  or  landing  be  amended,  so  as  to  read: 

That  when  vessels  or  water  craft   leave  the  landing  before  the 

•i ration  of  the  month  for  which  they  have  paid,  the  Mayor  is 

authorized  to  draw  a  warrant  for  a  return  of  the  pro-rata  of  the 

monthly  charge  so  paid  on  application  in  writing  to  him  of  the  party 

interested.* 


•Artiolo  6  amend"')  October  10,  1861. 


POLICE    AND    CITY    .JAIL. 

AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  THE  POLICE  AND  THE  CITY  JAIL. 

Adopted  July  24,  1861. 

1.  Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  City  of  Carrollton, 
That  the  department  of  police  of  tlie  City  of  Carrollton,  shall 
consist  of  the  Commissary,  and  such  other  police  officers,  policemen 
and  watchmen  as  the  Mayor  and  Council  may  from  time  to  time 
appoint,  or  such  as  may  be  appointed  by  their  authority. 

*  2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  members 
of  the  police  department  to  prevent  or  stop  all  disturbances  of  the 
peace,  and  all  violations  of  the  state  laws,  and  the  city  ordinances, 


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and  if  need  be,  to  arrest  the  offender,  to  be  dealt  with  according 
to  law.  They  are  authorized  to  arrest  and  lock  up  in  the  city  jail, 
all  intoxicated  or  noisy  persons,  and  all  slaves  found  in  contraven- 
tion of  the  law  and  ordinances,  but  in  no  case  shall  they  keep 
any  person,  bond  or  free,  in  said  city  jail  longer  than  twenty-four 
hours. 

3.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  -Mayor  is  authorized,  and  it 
is  hereby  made  his  duty,  to  appoint  special  policemen  or  watchmen, 
in  cases  of  urgent  necessity,  for  a  period  not  exceeding  one  week. 
and  the  distribution,  management  and  control  of  all  police  officers, 
policemen  and  watchmen,  and  all   their   operations  shall   be. 

are  hereby  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  Mayor  of  the  city.  He  is 
authorized  to  suspend  auy  of  them  for  cause,  and  employ  others, 
but  he  shall  keep  the  Council  advised  regularly,  by  written  reports, 
made  every  two  weeks,  of  the  changes  and  appointments  mad 
hiin  by  virtue  of  this  article,  and  the  reasons  therefor;  provided, 
that  this  article  shall  not  bo  construed  as  applicable  I !  >tn- 

missary. 

4.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  every  member  of  the  poiice 
department  shall  be  a  citizen  of  Louisiana,  and  resident  of  Carroll- 
ton,  and  must  be  sworn  to  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duties, 
and  give  bond  and  security  according  to  !;;-,  'i  sum  as  the 
Mayor  and  Council  may  direct. 

5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  a  police  record  shall  be  kept  by 
the  Mayor  at  the  Council  Hall,  subject  to  the  inspection  of  all 
persons  interested,  in  which  every  member  of  the  police  department 
shall  enter  daily,  over  his  own  signature,  a  detailed  account  of 
arrests,  and  disposition  of_  persons  arrested,  and  oilier  duties 
performed  by  him  the  day  and  night  betore,  and  a  detailed  account 
of  all  violations  of  law  that  may  have  come  to  his  knowledge. 

6.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  city  jail  fees  are  herebj'  fixed 
as  follows:  For  the  entering  of  a  prisoner,  $1;  for  the  going  out  of  a 
prisoner,  50  cents,  which  fees  shall  be  demanded  and  received  by 
the  officer,  policeman  or  watchman  who  locked  up  or  discharged 
the  prisoner;  and  all  fees  thus  received,  shall  be  paid  to  the  Treas- 
urer daily,  and  the  receipt  of  the  Treasure'  therefor  filed 
forthwith  with  the  Comptroller,  by  the  officer,  policeman  or  watch- 
man, who  received  and  paid  in  the  money. 

7.  Beit  further  Ordained,  That  the  Ma;  paired  to  have 
the  city  or  police  jail  kept  clean  and  in  order,  repaired  when 
necessary,  and  furnished  with  blankets  and  water. 


print  fc::n. 

AN  ORDINANCE    PROVIDING    FOB    THE    ELECTION   OF  a  PRINTER, 
AND  DEFINING  ID-  DUTD 

■  luly  1,  It 
Akt.  1.  ,  Thai  this  city  shall   be 


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elected  annually,  agreeably  to  the  rules  concerning  t!ic  election 
of  i  ut'  the   corporation,  whose   duty  il  ■  to  print 

and  issue  all  tl  gs,  ordinances,  not ;  iseinents 

of  the    Council,  and  the  notices  or  adv<  nblic 

..I  of  this  city,  in  a  public  newe 

1  fctober  19,  1859.     That  it  shall  ■  duty 

of  the  Printer  to  publish  within  three  days  al  .'the 

Mayor  and  Council,  a  certified  copy  of  the  proccedin  id  Mayor 

and  Council,  which  shall  be  furnished  him  :  From 

the  records. 

Art.  3.     Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  dnl 
Printer  to  publish  all  the  ordihan  ited  by  the  Council,  at 

least  twice  after  the  publication  of  the  proceedings;  also,  to  publish 
all    regulations,   notia  Ivertisements  of   whatever   nature, 

emanating  from  the  Council,  its  officers,  and  the  pul 
this  city  or  its  officers,  as  often  as  may  be  required  It  shall  also 
be  his  duty  to  do  all  job  work,  such  as  printing  blank  receipts  for 
taxes,  blank  licenses,  bonds,  &c ,  &c,  for  the  Council,  and  blank 
tickets,  certificates,  &c,  &c,  for  the  use  of  the  public  school,  as 
requited;  and  he, shall  print  the  ordinances  ;  f  the 

Council,  in  an  octavo  pamphlt  as  there  may  be  matter 

!-h,  and  furnish  all   materials  required  in  the  performance  of 
his  duties.     All  publications  to  be  made  in  the  English  langu; 
and  in  the  French  Language  when  the  law  require 

Art.  4.     Be.it  further  Ordained,   That   it:  case  of   i  or 

refusal  on  the  paiv  oi  said  Printer  to  perform  any  of  the  duties 
imposed  upon  him  by  this  ordinance,  the  Mayor  shall  order  the 
work  so  refused  or  neglected  to  be  done,  to  be  performed  by 
another  Printer,  and  the  cost  thereof  shall  be  charged  to  him  and 
his  securities. 

PRINTER  TO  FURNISH  ! 

Adopted  April  21,  1847. 

Resolved,  That  the  Printer  of  this  city  shall  furnish  the  Council 
with  twelve  copies  of  his  i  idings  of  any 

meeting  are  published. 


PUBLIC     SCHOOL. 

AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  THE  I  CHOOLS. 

1  June  12,  1861. 

1 .  Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  City  of  Carrollton, 
That  in  obedience  to  the  12th  section  of  the  act  to  incorporate  the 
city  of  Carrollton,  there  shall  be  elected  by  the  Mayor  and  Council 
in  the  month  of  April,  annually,  a  Board  of  seven  directors,  to 
control  and  manage  the  public  schools  of  this  city;  the  term  of 
the   Board    thus   elected    shall    commence  on  the  1st  of  May,  and 


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continue  until  their  successors  are  elected  and  qualified,  and  the 
failure  to  elect  in  April  shall  not  work  a  dissolution  of  the  Board, 
iancies  in  the  Boavd  caused  iation  or  otherwise. 

shall  be  filled  by  the  Com..  ,  as  may  be,  after  notice.     Each 

Director  shall  be  sworn  to  the  faithful  performance  of  his  di 
as  a  Director,  and  any  four  Directors  form  a  quorum  accordinj 
law. 

Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  Board  of  Directors  is  authorized 
to  establish  as  many  schools  and  departme  i  ay  be  required 

tuitous  education  to  all  white  children  permanently 
resident  in  this  ci  their  duty  to  report  quarterly  to 

the  Council,  the  condition  of  the  schools,  shpwing  the1  numb 
pupils  »n  their  progress,  and  such  oilier  facts  and 

suggestions  in   r<  be  school-  play 

grounds,  I  ;ary  and  -  shall,  at  least. 

once  a  ir,  report  the  number  and  class  of  teachers  employed, 
and  tiie  amount  of  salaries  paid  them  in  detail,  according  to  rank- 
all  which  reports  shall  be  published.  They  shall  not  purchase  any 
horn  nor  build  or  enlarge  any  school-house  without  the 

ous  consent  of  the 
3-    Be  !,  That  in  obedience  to  said  12th  section, 

umcil  wil  ans  required   over  ami 

above  the  State  appropriations  for  the  legitimate  support  and 
maintenance  of  the  public  schools,  and  all  bills  for  the  current 
expenses  of  the  sail  be  paid  when  approved  and  signed 

by  thiee  member.-  i  d.     The   teacher's  salaries  shall  be 

I  on  their  sim.  pts,  at  the  end  of  each  month  of  service; 

the    Mayor  is  hereby  authorized  to  draw  warrants  on  the  City 

all  bills  duly  approved  and  receipted    as 
aforesaid. 

4.     Be  it  further  Ordaim  ioard  of  Directors  shall  hold 

their  meetings  in  the  Council  Hall,  and  shall  meet  at  least  on. 
month,    for    the   transaction  of  business.     The   Secretary  of  the 
Council  being  ex-officio  Seer-vary  of  the  Board,  shall  attend  their 
meeth  record  of  their   proceedings,   and  file  all    their 

papers  among  the  archives  of  the  city,  and  the  records  and  papers 
shall  be  subject  to  the  inspection  and  proper  use  of  the  Mayor,  and 
members  of  the  Council  at  all  times.  Any  member  of  the  Board 
who  has  neglected  to  attend  three  success  of  the  Board, 

whether  regular  or  called  n  .shallbec  dining 

rve  in  the  Board,  and  shall  lie  reported  to  the  Council  by  the 
Secretary,  in  order  that  his  place  maybe  filled  by  the  Council; 
provided,  this  shall  not  apply  to  members  who  were  unavoidably 
absent  from  the  meetings  of  the  Board. 


AN    ORDINANCE  AUTHORIZING    TIT,  ;,!:Ni 
CHILDREN  TO  '                 '             iOOL. 

Adopted  Februa  146. 

Akt.  1.     Be  it  Ordained,  Thai    any  person   not  a   citizen  of  this 


02 

who   may  wi  i  of  sending  his  or  her 

child  or  children  1  (         !.         public  school,  may  secnre  the 

same  by  payin  each  child,   the  annual 

sum  of  thirty  dolli 

.  Tint   upon  the   delivery  of  the 

Treasurer's  receipt  for  one  quarter's  advance,  the  Comptroller  shall 

a  certificate  of  the  same,  the  delivery  ^f  which  to  the  Directors 

lie  school,  shall   authorize   them   to   admit   such  h'nt 

children. 


AN    ORDINANCE    PROHIBITING    THE    ADMISSION    OF    TB  \ 

RES]  :.,  ETC. 

Adopted  September  9,  18 

it.  1.     Be  it  Ordained,  That  the  children  of  transient  residents, 
may  not  be  tax  payers  of  This  city,  or  children  whose  parents 
do  not  reside  herein,  shall  doI  ted  in  the  public  school  of 

this  city,  unless  on  compliance  with  the  ordinance  concerning 
non-resident  children,  adopted  25th  February,  1846;  and  the  Board 
of    Directors    are   hereby  authorized   to   rei  sh    admission, 

under  the  conditions  herein  expressed. 


A  RESOLUTIONTN  RELATION  TO  SCHOOL  MONEY  RECEIVED  FROM 

STATE. 
i 

Adopted  January  23,  1854. 

Resolved,  That,  the  money  received  from  the  State  on  account  of 
the  public  school,  shall  be  specially  iriated  to  the  payment 

of  the  expenses  of  the   public  school,    and   that    the   Treasurer 
reserve  all  such  money  Tor  thai  purp 


ROADIS    ^lTVD     STREETS. 

RESOLUTIONS  CONCERNING  THE  JEFFERSON  AND  LAKE  I'ONTCHAR- 
TIIAIN    RAILROAD. 

Adopted  May  29,  1850. 

Wherea8,The  Jefferson  and  Lake  Pontchartrain  Railroad  Company 
has  presented  a  memorial  to  this  Council,  asking  the  grant  of  the 
right  of  way  for  a  railroad  from  the  present  terminus  i^i'  the  New 
Orleans  and  Carrolltou  Railroad  through  Levee  street,  to  the  upper 
line  of  the  city,  thence  through  Upper  Line  street  to  the  limits  oi 
the  corporation,  and   also  praying  for  the  widening  of  Upper  Line 


street,  proposing-  to  pay  the  damages  thai  may  be  assessed  accord- 
ing- to  law,  in  widening  said  street;  and  whereas,  it  is  the  opinion 
of  this  Council,  that  it  is  expedient  to  grant  the  said  privileges  on 
,the  terms  and  for  the  considerations  proposed;  therefore, 

1.  Beit  Resolved,  That  said  proposition  be,  and  the  same  is 
hereby  accepted. 

2.  Resolved,  That  the  Jefferson  and  Lake  Pontchartrain  Railroad 
Company  shall  have  the  right  of  way  through  Levee  and  Upper 
Line  streets,  until  March,  188:.)-.  provided,  that  it  is  not  contrary 
to  the  constitution  and  laws  of  this  State;  and  provided  further, 
that  if  it  should  become  necessary  for  this  corporation  to  occupy 
Levee  street  for  a  levee,  before  the  expiration  of  said  term,  no 
damages  shall  fall  on  the  corporation  for  loss  to  the  company. 

3.  Resolved,  That  said  company  is  hereby  invested  with  the 
privilege  of  making  and  using,  until  March,  1883,  a  single  track 
railway  though  the  center  of  Levee  street,,  from  the  end  of  the 
New  Orleans  and  Carrollton  Railroad  to  Upper  Line  street,  with 
necessary  turn  outs  at  each  end  of  said  railroad  on  Levee 
street;  provided,  that  said  company  shall  fill  up  said  Levee  street 
to  the  grade  as  they  proceed  in  their  work;  and  provided  further, 
that  said  company  shall  make  two  good  and  substantial  culverts, 
of  the  width  and  depth  required  by  the  ordinances  regulating 
street  bridges  at  each  street  leading  from  the  river;  and  shall  plank 
or  pave  the  said  railroad  tracks  at  each  of  said  streets,  so  as  to 
make  the  crossing  at  said  streets  convenient  and  safe;  and  the 
said  company  shall  also  accommodate  the  grade  of  their  said  rail- 
road to  the  grade  of  said  streets,  as  the  same  may  be  fixed  by  the 
proper  officers  of  the  city  from  time  to  time. 

4.  Resolved,  That  said  company  shall  have  the  right  to  run 
locomotives  on  said  line  of  railroad;  provided,  that  they  do  not 
put  them  to  a  greater  speed  than  five  miles  an  hour  through  Levee 
street. 

5.  Beit  further  Resolved,  That  the  Council*  does  hereby  authorize 
the  Jefferson  and  Lake  Pontchartrain  Railroad  Company,  to  take 
the  proper  and  legal  measures  to  increase  the  width  of  Upper 
Line  Street,  through  its  entire  length,  from  Levee  street  to  the 
limits  of  the  corporation,  fifty  feet  beyond  its  present  width;  said 
fifty  feet  to  be  taken  from  the  eastern  side  of  said  street;  and  that 
said  Upper  Line  street,  as  soon  as  it  shall  have  been  so  widened, 
shall  be  divided  into  two  road  ways,  leaving  through  the  center 
for  the  entire  length  of  said  street  as  aforesaid,  a  space  or  track 
of  twenty-six  feet  in  width;  and  that  said  company  shall  be  invested 
with  the  right  and  privilege,  during  the  term  of  its  charter,  of 
constructing  and  using  a  double  track  railway  on  said  space  of 
twenty-six  feet  in  width,  together  wilh  the  proper  and  neces^ 
turn-outs  and  appurtenances;  and  said  company  shall  dig  a  clear 
wide  ditch  on  each  side  of  said  center  space  in  the  said  Upper  Line 
street,  throughout  the  entire  length  they  occupy;  provided,  that 
the  privileges  herein  contained  arc  granted  on  the  conditions  that 
thr>  said  company  shall,  in  the  |  i  stead  of  this  corporation, 


of  land  to 
rod  Bhall  ay  all 

lawful  an  ning 

the  same;  and  provided  further,  all  commi 

the  c  ion  of  s:-iid  rail) 

ber,  1850,  and  shall  corapl<  •  le  Lake, 

within  th  From  the 

•Resolution  5  ml  amend*  Council  empowering  the  0 

instead  of  engaging  to  act  themselves,  in  widening  I 


A  RESOLUTION  RELATING   TO  THE  PRIVILEGE    GRANTED    TO  THE 
JEFFERSON  AND  LAKE  PONTCHARTRAIN  RAILRl  i.\D  Ci  IMPANT,  TO 

RUN  !."■ 

Adopted  May  10,  1854. 

Whereas,  The  Jefferson  and  Lake  Pontchartrain  Railroad  have 
■  i.  of  way  throu  ,  with  a  privilege  to 

run  1  ves  on  the  same,  p 

of  five  miles  per  hour;  and  wh  inhabitai  treet, 

and  the  public  generally  are   constantly  complaining,    and   have 

tioned  the  Council,  in  r<  rousrate 

al  which  the  locomotives  are  driven,  which  the  rate 

provided  forinthe  resolution  granting  said  privilege;  and  whereas. 
the  S  through  Levee  street,  from 

its  intersection  with  Upper  Lin  (street,  Madison 

street,  to  be  two  thousand  nine  hundred  and  thirty-seven  feet,  and 
time  required  to  run  the  said  distance  to  be  six  minutes  and  forty 
seconds,  being  at  the  rate  of  fiv-  •■  Q  hour;  then  i 

Be  it  Resolved,  That  whenever  it  comes  to  the  kno  of  the 

ncil,  by  information  fro 
that  the  Jefferson  and  Lake   Pontchartrain   Railroad  Company's 
Locomotives    have  been   driven  through    L  al   a  rate 

ceding  five  miles  per  hour;  thai  is,  if  th  1  etween  the 

intei  F  said   i 

.,  is  run  in  less  time  than  six  minutes  and 
forty  ,  the  Council  will  declare  the  rson 

and  Lake  Pi  .  tin  Railroad  Compel  a  on 

said  Levee  street,  I,  andwil  teps 

to  enfoi  'lie. 


•      CIVE  TO  N  ETS. 

Adopted  December  1,  1847. 

Art.  1.     Be  il  0  ',  That  no  new  streets  or  public  thorough- 

fares shall  be  laid  out  or  opened  within  the  limits  of  this  city, 


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without  a  plan  of  the  same,  including  the  property  fronting  thereon, 
being  first  submitted  to  and  approved  of  by  the  Mayor  and  Council 
of  this  city. 


RESOLUTION  ABOUT  RAILROAD  OF  BROWN  A"  CO. 

ipted  October  31,  1860. 

Resolved,  That  S.  II.  Brown  &  Co.  be  and  are  hereby  authorized 
to  lay  a  R.  R.  track  across  the  upper  side  of  Upper  Line  Btreet,  at 
a  point  opposite  Plum  street,  so  as  to  form  a  connection  with  the 
Jefferson  and  Lake  R.  R.,  and  the  R.  R.  which  they  will  construct 
in  street  of  New  Carrollton;  provided,  they  lay  the  said 

track  to  the  city  grade,  till  up  the  street  in  which  it  is  laid  to  the 
grade,  dig  and  keep  open  the  ditches  required  around  and  about  it. 
make  and  keep  in  good  repair  the  bridges  over  which  it  may  pass,  and 
plank  the  space  between  the  rails  of  said  track,  and  twelve  inches 
on  each  side  of  it;  and  when  required  by  the  Council,  they  shall 
remove  said  R.  R.  track  at  their  own  expense. 


AX  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  CANAL  AVENUE    AND  FIRST  STREET 

Adopted  March  8,  1848. 

Art.  1.  Be  UOrdained,  That  in  addition  to  a  banquette  of  fifteen 
feet  in  width,  on  each  side  of  Canal  Avenue,  there  shall  be  a  road- 
way on  each  side  of  thirty*  feet  clear  width,  thus  leaving  a  space 
in  the  center  of  sixty  feet  in  width;  and  that  tho  said  center  space 
shall  be  called  the  promenade;  provided,  that  this  ordinance  shall 
not  be  so  construed  as  to  prevent  the  use  of  said  center  space  for 
a  public  road. 

Art.  2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  banquettes  on  Firs! 
street  be  fixed  at  nine  feet  in  width,  and  that  the  roadway  on  each 
side  of  the  railroad  be  fixed  at  twenty-seven  .  ■  width,  that 

is,  clear  of  the  curbs. 


AN  ORDINANCE  FOR  WIDENING  A  PART  OF  FIRST  STREET,  GIVING 
TO  THE  N.O.  AND  CARROLLTON  RAILROAD  <  OMPANY  THE  RIGHT 
OF  WIDENING  Til!  SOUSE,  AND  FOR  OTHER  PURPOS1  3. 

Adopted  dune  13,  1849. 

Art.  1.     Be  it  Ordained,  That  the  proposition  i  ■    >.v  Orleans 

and   Carrollton   Railroad    Company  to  dedicate  to  public  use,  on 
certain  conditions  as  herein  exp  pound  of  eighteen 

•Originally  12  anl 

9 


G6 

feet  in  width,  running  from  Canal  Avenue  to  Lei 

lo of  First  st:  i  widening  the  same,)  be,  end 

I  npi m  said  conditiona 

B     I  further  Ordttt  -hall, 

within  six  months,  Laj  i  le  and  put  in  rd<  r,  a  sti 

thirty-eight  f<  the  width  of  the  w  exietii 

fn»m  ''anal  A  adjoining  the  garden  and  hotel 

lot,  as  the  aame  will  be  when  the  fence  shall  be  i  .  that  the 

.    .       ill  also  within  the  Baid  pei  tod,  lay  good  plank  banquet- 
id  both  sides  of  the  street  ao  laid  off,  the  Bame  to  be         ich 
width  aa  directed   by  the  Oonnoil;  and  that  Baid  company 

;d  street  .shall  be  paved,  keep  the  same  in  good  order,  and 
repair  the  same  from  time  to  time,  under  the  direction  of  the  proper 
officers  of  the  Council. 

Am.  ">.  Be  U  further  Onli'med,  That  in  consideration  of  the 
premises,  the  railroad  company  shall  have  the  privilege  of  widening 
and  extending  their  car-house,  on  the  side  a<  bob  I,  to  the 

extent  of  eighteen  feel  beyond  its  presenl  line,  and  bIuiII  have  and 
enj.y  the  privilege  of  using  for  all  the  purposes  of  the  company, 
the  space  between  the  Baid  streel  so  to  be  laid  out,  and  the  rail- 
road as  now  existing,  from  said  Canal  Avenue  to  Levee  street, 
luding  that  portion  opposite  to  Dublin  street. 


AN  ORDINANCE  FIXING  THE  NAMES  OP  STREETS. 

Adopted  September  1,  1854. 

Aw.  l.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  all  streets  hereafter  laidontby 
property  holders  in  Carrollton,  snb-dividing  the  original  double 
squares,  shall   be  not   less  than  fifty  feet  wide,  and  shall  equally 

divide  said  original  squares. 

Art.  -  />'  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  names  General  Scott, 
Millaudon,  Biliary,  Burdette,  Short,  Dublin,  Carobronne,  Leonidas, 
Mary,  Holy-Grove;  Laurel-Grove,  Live-Oak,  Highland,  Blackberry 
and  Philip,  be  established  as  the  names  of  the  streets  running'from 

the  liver  to  the  roar  corporation  line,  intermediate  between  the 
streets  projected  <m  the  original  plan;  thai  the  names,  Hamp 
Burthe,  Zimple,  Plum,  Jeanetto,  Green,  Cohn,  Cypress,  Napoleon 
A  \  ■■iiuc, Nelson,  Belfast,  Pritchard,  Collappissa,  Porshey,  Edinburgh, 
Strelitz,  Dixon,  Marks  and  Beaton,  be  established  as  the  names  of 
the  cross  streets,  intermediate  between  the  BtreetS  projected  on  the 

original  plan,  from   First  street  to  the  rear  corporation  Hue;  and 
that  the  names  1'eail,  Commercial,  Macarty,  l>e  Armas,  Ann.  Esth  ir, 

Wall  and  Oliver,  be  established  as  the  names  of   the  cross  streets. 

lying  between  Pirsl  street  and  Levee  Btreet 
Art.  o.     Be  ii   further  Ordained,  That   the   ordinance   adopted 

February  3d,  1850,  fixing  the  names  of  certain  streets  be,  and  the 
same  is  hereby  repealed. 


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A  RESOLUTION    AUTHORIZING    THE    CUTTING    OF    TREES    IN  THE 

STREETS. 

Adopted  October  3,  1851. 

Resolved,  That  permission  be  granted  to  any  person  or  persons 
to  cut  or  clear  away  the  wood  and  trees  on  the  roads  or  streets 
laid  out  in  the  rear  of  the  city  of  Carrollton. 


RESOLUTION  TO  PAY  STREET  HANDS  MONTHLY. 

Adopted  May  2,  1860. 

Resolved,  That  hereafter,  the  Commissary's  street  hands  be  paid 
for  their  services  on  the  first  of  each  month,  according  to  the 
Commissary's  pay  roll,  and  the  Mayor  is  hereby  authorized  to  draw 
his  warrants  in  favor  of  the  persons  named,  and  for  the  amounts 
specified  therein;  provided,  that  there  is  no  greater  number  of 
hands  on  the  roll  than  has  been  authorized  by  the  Council  to  be 
employed;  and  provided,  the  roll  is  certified  to  by  a  majority  of 
the  Streets  and  Landings  Committee  as  correct. 


ORDINANCE    CONCERNING    SHADE    TREES. 

Adopted  October  21,  1857. 

1.  Be  if  Ordained,  That  hereafter,  no  tree  shall  be  planted 
or  set  out  in  the  streets  or  on  the  banquettes  of  this  city,  unless 
they  be  planted  on  the  banquette,  within  eighteen  inehes  of  the 
outer  or  street  edge  of  the  banquette,  and  any  one  violating  this 
ordinance  shall  be  liable  to  a  tine  of  $5  for  each  offence. 

2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  any  one  destroying  a  tree  placed 
on  the  banquette,  according  to  the  existing  ordinance — himself,  his 
child,  servant,  cow,  horse,  gnat  or  other  animal,  shall  be  liable  to 
a  fine  of  $1";  and  any  one  injuring  a  tree  so  placed,  shall  lie  liable 
to  a  fine  of  s.">  for  each  offence. 

Ik  it  further  Ordained,  Thai  fifteen  cents  per  tree  shall  be 
paid  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  to  any  residt  at  who  may  plain 
properly,  according  to  ordinance,  any  number  of  oak  trees,  between 
the  months  of  November  and  M  I  less  than  twenty-live  nor 

more  than  thirty  feel  i  r  18,  1857). 


AX  ORDINANCE  TO  \NI>. 

A<\  "   rcb  T,  1- 

L    Who  ented  thai  the  distance  as  found  by  mens* 

urementon  Canal  Avenue,  from  First  street  to  Eleventh  91 


-aid  Btreeta  arc  now  located,  is  such  that  alter  allowing-  the  surplus 
measure  of  one  foot  to  each  square,  in  accordance  with  existing 
ordinance,  there  still  remains  an  excess  of  measure  over  the 
distance  called  for  by  private  titles,  and  by  the  orig-inal  plan  of 
Carrollton. 

'2.  Nbv>  therefore  be  it  Ordained,  That  all  locations  hereafter  made 
between  First  and  Tenth  streets,  shall  be  made  from  First  street; 
and  that  all  locations  between  Eleventh  and  Tenth  streets  shall 
he  made  from  Eleventh  street,  a  surplus  of  one  foot  being  added 
to  each  square:  and  that  the  measure  of  six  hundred  and  fifty-two 
feet  being  allowed  to  the  lands  below  Ninth  and  Tenth  streets;  any 
Burplns  land  thereafter  remaining  shall  be  placed  in  Tenth  street. 

'.).  Be  it  fv/rther  Ordained,  That  all  locations  between  Eleventh 
and  Thirteen  streets  shall  be  made  in  conformity  with  those  streets 
as  already  located,  and  any  surplus  land  found  to  exist  between 
those  streets  shall  be  equally  divided  between  the  squares. 

4.  Be  if  further  Ordained,  That  all  locations  made  between 
Thirteenth  street  and  the  New  Orleans  shellroad,  shall  be  made 
from  Thirteenth  street,  a  surplus  of  one  foot  being  added  to  each 
square,  and  any  excess  of  land  thereafter  remaining,  shall  be 
placed  in  the  last  square  at  the  termination  of  Canal  Avenue. 

5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  south  corner  of  Canal  Avenue 
and  First  street,  and  the  east  corner  of  Canal  Avenue  and  Eleventh 
street,  as  said  corners  are  7iow  located,  shall  be  taken  as  fixing 
the  line  of  Canal  Avenue. 


\\  ORDINANCE  DEDICATING  CERTAIN  LAND*  TO  PUBLIC  USE. 

Adopted  May  15,  1861. 

1.  Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Mayor  and  Councilofthe  City  of  Carrollton, 
That  all  that  portion  of  square. 56  in  Carrollton,  purchased  by  the 
Mayor  and  Council  from  Mrs.  M.  A.  E.  Hampson,  by  act  passed 
before  C.  C.  Porter,  Notary  Public,  on  the  11th  of  June,  1860,  be, 
and  the  same  is  hereby  appropriated  and  dedicated  to  public 
use,  as  portions  of  Mary  and  Plum  streets;  say,  that  portion 
from  the  upper  part  of  the  square  to  Mary  street,  and  that  portion 
from  the  center  of  the  square  to  Plum  street. 

2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  that  portion  of  square  38  in 
Carrollton,  purchased  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  from  Michael  Bock, 
by  act  passed  before  C.  C.  Porter,  Notary  Public,  on  the  13th  of 
November,  1860,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby  appropriated  and  ded- 
icated to  public  use,  as  portions  of  Short  and  Zimple  streets;  say, 
that  portion  from  the  upper  part  of  the  square,  to  Short  street;  and 
that  portion  from  the  center  of  the  square,  to  Zimple  street. 

3.  Be  it  fmthcr  Ordained,  That  all  that  portion  of  square  Sixteen, 
in  Carrollton,  ceded  and  transferred  by  the  N.  0.  &  C.  R.  R.  Co.,  to 
tli<)  Mayor  and  Council,  by  act  passed  before  C.  C.  Porter,  Notary 


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Public,  on  the  6th  day  of  May,  1861,  be,  and  the  same  is   hereby 
dedicated  to  public  use,  as  part  of  Levee  street. 

4.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  surveyor  of  Carrollton  is 
authorized  and  directed  to  fix  the  lines  of  the  several  streets 
named,  in  the  localities  named,  in  conformity  with  the  several  acts 
mentioned  above. 


A  RESOLUTION  RELATIVE  TO  MOVING  DIRT  FROM  STREETS. 

Adopted  August  4,  1852. 
Resolved,  That  the  Commissary  is  hereby  forbidden  to  move  the 
dirt  or  earth  from  one  place  to  another,  in  the  streets  of  this  city, 
unless  previously  instructed  so  to  do  by  the  Mayor  and  Council; 
and  when  instructed  or  authorized  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  to 
remove  any  dirt,  it  shall  not  be  taken  or  cut  down  below  the  grade 
of  the  street. 


A  RESOLUTION  GRANTING  TO  THE  JACKSON  AND  GREAT  NORTHERN 
RAILROAD  COMPANY.  THE  RIGHT  OF  WAY  THROUGH  THE  STREETS 
OF  CARROLLTON. 

Adopted  May  11,  1853. 
Resolved,  That  the  right  of  way  through  the  streets  of  Carrollton 
as  designated  by  this  map,  *  be,  and  is  hereby  granted;  provided, 
that  the  New  Orleans,  Jackson  and  Great  Northern  Railroad 
Company  will  make  the  necessary  culverts  for  draining  the  city, 
as  they  may  be  required  at  times  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  this 
city;  nor  shall  said  railroad  company  extend  their  railroad  nearer 
to  the  river  than  12th  street,  nor  further  towards  the  canal  than 
16th  street.  . 


SECRETARY. 

ORDINANCE  RELATIVE  TO  THE  SECRETARY  OF  THE  COUNCIL. 

Adopted  April  24,  1845. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  a  suitable  and  discreet  person  shall 
be  appointed  Secretary  of  the  Council,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to 
attend  on  all  its  deliberations,  and  of  such  committees  as  from 
time  to  time  maybe  appointed;  to  keep  a  correct  account  and 
record  of  the  deliberations  of  the  Council,  and  enter  the  same  in 
a  clear  and  correct  manner  on  the  journal;  to  perform  all  duties 
that  may  be  required  of  him  by  the  Council,  and  carefully  preserve 

*A  mnp  delineating  the  route  of  the  railrond  through  Carrollton,  furnished  by  tbo  Company 
ww  presented  with  the  abovo  resoluticn.  ' 


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in  the  archives  thereof,  all  documents,  records  and  papers,  that  may 
belong-  to  the  Council. 

Art.  2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Secretay,  within  two  days  after  any  ordinance  or  resolution  becomes 
a  law,  to  transmit  a  certified  copy  of  the  same  to  the  officer  whose 
special  duty  it  may  be  to  carry  the  same  i  1 1 1 • »  effect;  it  shall  like- 
wise be  his  duty  to  write  up  the  journal  of  the  proceedings  within 
twenty- four  hours  after  the  adjournment  of  the  Council,  and  not 
to  permit  any  report  of  committee  or  other  paper,  to  be  taken  out 
of  the  Council  Chamber,  that  properly  belongs  to  the  archives  of 
the  Council. 


AN    ORDINANCE    RELATIVE    TO    SLAVES    AND   FREE  PERSONS  OF 

COLOR. 

Adopted  June  26,  1861. 

1.  Beit  Ordained,  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  IhcCity  of Carwllton, 
That  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for 'any  slave  to  lodge  or  sleep  in  any 
house  or  premises  other  than  that  of  his  or  her  owner  or  master, 
or  that  of  his  or  her  owner's  agent,  or  of  the  person  to  whom  he  or 
she  may  be  hired,  without  special  authority  in  writing  to  do  so; 
which  authority  or  permit  shall  specify  the  length  of  time  for  which 
it  may  be  given. 

2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  persons  be,  and  are  hereby 
forbidden  to  let  or  hire  by  the  month,  week,  day  or  any  time,  an}' 
house,  room,  apartment,  closet  or  place  whatever,  within  the  limits 
of  this  city,, to  any  slave,  even  with  the  permission  or  authority 
of  his  or  her  owner  ov  owners;  and  all  persons  are  forbidden  to  hire 
or  employ  any  slave  for  any  time  without  the  consent  of  the  owner. 

3.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  slaves 
to  assemble  in  any  of  the  streets,  roads,  public  squares,  railroad 
depots,  markets,  or  in  any  house,  cabaret,  grocery  or  coffee-house, 
or  on  the  levee  or  batture,  or  on  any  vessel  or  boat,  or  any 
other  place  whatsoever,  in  this  city;  provided,  that  nothing  herein 
contained  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  prohibitslaves  from  assembling, 
with  their  owner's  consent,  in  a  church,  during  the  hours  conse- 
crated to  divine  service,  nor  from  attending  funerals;  and  provided, 
it  shall  not  apply  to  small  parties  of  slaves  seeking  pleasure  or 
promenading  on  Sunday,  with  their  owner's  consent. 

4.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  slaves  are  forbidden  to  assemble 
with  free  persons  of  color  at  any  place  whatever,  and  shall  not  be 
permitted  to  attend  anjr  ball  given  by  free  persons  of  color,  or 
wherein  such  persons  are  admitted;  and  any  free  person  of  color 
found  assembling  with  slaves,  or  permitting  slaves  to  mingle  with 
them  in  balls  or  elsewhere,  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  $25  for  each 
offence. 

5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  slaves,  except  the  blind  and 


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infirm,  are  forbidden  to  be  armed  with  a  cane  or  stick;  all  slaves 
are  forbidden  to  fight,  wres'tlc,  quarrel,  curse  or  sing  obscene  songs, 
or  in  any  wise  to  disturb  the  public  peace,  or  to  gamble  or  play 
cards  or  games  of  any  kind  iu  the  streets,  roads  or  other  places, 
or  on  the  levee  or  lauding,  or  on  vessels  or  boats  moored  at  the 
landing,  or  on  the  premises  of  any  person,  whether  public  or  private. 
G.  Beit  further  Ordained,  That  all  slaves  are  forbidden  to  travel 
or  take  passage  in  any  carriage,  cab,  or  other  public  vehicle  whatev- 
er; in  any  steamboat,  shin  or  other  vessel,  or  craft  whatsoever, with- 
out the  written  permission  of  his  or  her  owner  or  the  owner's  agent. 

7.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  whenever  the  owner  of  one  or 
more  slaves  be  desirous  of  permitting  his  or  her  slaves  to  give  a 
ball  or  dance  at  the  dwelling  or  residence  of  such  owner,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  such  owner  to  obtain  a  written  or  printed  permit 
to  that  effect  from  the  Mayor;  but  said  permit  shall  expire  at  12 
o'clock,  P.  M.,  and  the  owner  shall  have  a  white  person  present 
at  the  ball  or  dance"  to  keep  order,  and  to  prevent  the  use  of  spir- 
ituous liquors  among  the  slaves  present. 

8.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any 
slave  to  walk  or  appear  on  the  streets,  levee  or  public  places  of 
this  city  intoxicated  or  drunk,  and  all  slaves  are  forbidden  to  enter 
any  cabaret,  grog-shop,  grocery,  coffee-house  or  other  premises  for 
the  purpose  of  drinking  spirituous  liquors,  or  for  the  purpose  of 
obtaining  such  liquors. 

9.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  every  slave  found  in  contravention 
of  any  of  the  foregoing  articles  of  this  ordinance,  shall  receive 
not  less  than  ten,  nor  more  than  twenty-five  lashes  for  each  offence, 
unless  his  owner  pays  a  fine  of  $5  for  each  offence;  and  if  any  free 
person,  white  or  colored,  shall  aid,  abet  or  force  any  slave  to  a 
contravention  of  any  of  said  articles,  such  free  person  shall  be 
liable  to  a  fine  of  $25  for  each  offence.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  any  police  officer,  and  the  right  of  any  free  person,  white 
or  colored,  to  arrest  any  slave  found  in  contravention  of  any  of 
said  articles,  and  put  such  slave  in  jail  to  be  dealt  with  according 
to  law.  To  make  such  arrests,  all  police  officers  and  others  are 
authorized  to  enter  such  house  or  premises  as  may  be  necessary 
It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  all  police  officers  to  file  information 
with  the  Attorney,  of  violations  of  this  ordinance  by  free  persons, 
white  or  colored,  that  he  ma}'  prosecute  them  according  to  law. 

10.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  every  slave  found  on  the  levee, 
or  in  the  streets  or  highways,  or  public  places  within  the  limits  of 
this  city  after  8|  o'clock,  P.  ML,  from  22d  September  to  22d  March, 
and  after  9J  o'clock,  P.  M-,  from  92d  March  to  21st  September, 
without  a  legal  pass  or  permit  specifying  the  time  such  slave  ia 
allowed  to  remain  out  after  said  hour,  shall  be  arrested  and  locked 
up  in  the  police  jail.  If  a  of  Carrollton,  the  owner  shall 
be  notified  by  the  officer  making  the  arrest,  early  next  morning. 
to  come  forward,  pay  jail  fees,  and  $1  to  the  officer  who  made  the 
arrest,  and  take  his  slave  away;   and  the  owner  failing  to  comply 


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with  the  notice  before  noon  that  day,  the  slave  shall  be  treated  as 
B  runaway.  If  the  owner  of  a  Blave  arrested  as  aforesaid,  during 
tin-  night,  is  a  non-resident,  the  slave  shall  bo  treated  as  a  runaway 
according  to  law. 

11.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  all  persons  bringing  into  this 
city,  slaves  from  other  States  or  territories,  shall, within  twenty-four 
hours  after  their  arrival  in  the  city,  make  a  declaration  under  oath 
before  a  justice  of  the  peace  or  other  proper  officer,  and  file  the 
same  with  the  Mayor,  of  the  number  of  Blaves  brought  by  them, 
their  sex,  name  and  age,  the  place  from  which  they  were  brought,  and 
the  name  of  the  town  or  county  where  they  last  resided.  Every 
person  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  slO  for  every  slave  brought  into 
the  city  in  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  section. 

12.  Beit  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duly  of  every  free 
person  of  color  who  may  move  or  come  into  this  city  to  reside,  to 
report  himself  or  herself  and  family  in  detail  to  the  Mayor,  and 
exhibit  to  him  the  proof  or  evidence  of  their  right  to  reside  in  this 
State;  all  of  which  shall  be  recorded  by  the  Mayor,  in  a  book  kept 
for  that  purpose.  If  any  free  person  of  color  refuse  or  neglect  to 
comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  article,  he  or  she  shall  be  liable 
to  a  fine  of  $10  for  each  day  they  may  so  neglect,  and  be  arrested 
for  trial,  on  the  charge  of  being  in  the  State  in  contravention  of 
law.  All  hotel  or  boarding  house  keepers,  or  other  persons  harboring 
or  keeping  in  their  houses  or  premises,  renting  houses  to  or 
employing  any  free  person  of  color  being  in  the  city  in  contraven- 
tion of  law,  snail  be  fined  not  less  than  $25  for  every  offence. 

13.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any 
person  to  leave  their  house  or  premises  entirely  in  charge  and 
possession  of  slaves  for  any  time  over  twenty-four  hours,  and  any 
person  violating  this  section  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  $10  for 
each  offence,  and  the  slave  thus  left  in  charge  shall  be  arrested 
and  dealt  with  as  a  runaway. 


SLAUGHTER    HOUSES,    &c. 

ORDINANCE   CONCERNING  VENDORS  OF  FRESH  MEAT,  SLAUGHTER 
HOUSES  AND  NUISANCES. 

Adopted  June  is,  1845. 

Articles  1,  2,  and  3,  repealecl.* 

Art.  4.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  every 
butcher  or  other  person,  who  shall  slaughter,  or  cause  any  animal 
to  be  slaughtered  within  the  limits  of  this  city,  to  do  the  same  in 
a  slaughter  house,  and  not  in  the  open  air;  and  it  shall  be  his  duty 
to  keep  said  slaughter  house,  and  the  lot  in  which  il  may  be 
situated,  clean. 

♦Articles  1,  2  and  .1,  related  to  private  stands  of  batchers,  before  the  establishment  of  the 
rnaiket,  repealed  Juno  2, 1848. 

Articles  5  and  7,  repealed  August  7. 1861. 


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AX  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  SLAUGHTER   HOUSES, 

Adopted  January  21,  L852. 

Am'.  1.  Ik  it  Ordained,  Thai  there  shall  be  no  slaughter  houses 
to  slaughter  beeves,  calves,  ho^s,  sheep  or  other  animals,  in  front  of 
Third  street,  below  Adams  street,  and  in  fronl  of  Fifth  street,  above 
Adams  street:  and  any  butcher  or  other  person  slaughtering  any 
beeves,  calves,  hogs,  sheep  or  oilier  animals,  between  said  streets 
and  the  river,  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  exceeding  $10  for  the 
first  offence,  and  $20  for  any  subsequent  often 

Art.  ■_'.     Be  it  further  ',  That  it:  shall  be  the  duty  of  every 

butcher  or  other  person  slaughtering  animals,  to  kill  the  same  by" 
some  sudden  means,  and  to  bleed  them  thoroughly  immediately 
after  falling;  and  if  any  person  shall  slaughter  any  animal  for 
market  immediately  after  being  heated  or  infuriated  by  driving 
or  beating,  or  goading,  he  or  they  shall,  upon  co\  ictibn  thereof,  be 
fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  $10  nor  more  than  $50  for  the  first 
offence,  and  one  hundred  dollai  ■•■;>   mbseqi  ice;  the 

informer  to  receive  one-half  of  the  line. 

Articles  3  and  -1,  repealed  August   .',  ! 

Art'.  5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That,  all  persons  are  forbidden  to 
goad,   beat,   torment,  worry  with  do  ifuriate  by  any  means, 

any  animal  that  is  intended  for  slaughter  or  no  ir  in  the  streets, 

yards,  lots  or  houses  in  the  limits  of  this  city;  and  are  forbidden 
to  blow  up  or  inflate  with  air.  n  ■  be  offered  for  sale  in 

the  market  of  this  city:  and  for  each  offence  hall  be  liable  to  a 
fine  of  §10,  recoverable   before   nu\  iuct,  one-half  for 

the  informer,  and  the  other  half  for  the  city. 


8URVEYOK    AND    SUItVEYH. 

ANORDINANI  G  THE  OFFU  OR  AND  DEFINING 

TITE  DUTIES  OF  TH  V\    OFFK 

;    \  a  -list  6,    1845. 

Articles  I  ai  561. 

\i;r.  3.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  Thar  it  shall  hi  the  duty  of  the 
Surveyor  to  give  the  lineatiou  of  ail  Btreets,  banquettes  or  .side- 
walks, for  all  buildings  that  may  be  erected  on  the  line  ol  any 
street  or  road,  and  and.  when  called  up  m  for  thai 

purpose;   h<    shall    make  all  mi,  and,   superintend 

the  execution  of  all    improvements   and   public  works  within   the 
limits  of  the  city,  which   tin'   ordi  ribe;    and   b- 

shall    careful';  rve    in   his  office  all   plats,   maps  ur   pla 

mates  and  specificati  works  projected  < 

nperintendence  by  order  of  said  corporation,  which  will  form  the 

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records  of  said  department;  they  Bhall  be  the  property  of  the  cor- 
poration, and  shall  at  all  times  he  accessible  to  the  Mayor  and 
Councilmen,  and  they  shall  he  transferred  from  time  to  time  to  the 
custody  of  the  incumbents  of  Baid  office;  he  shall  also  keep  a 
book  wherein  shall  be  recorded  the*quantity  and  valuation  of  all 
paving  and  sidewalks  done  under  his  superintendence  pursuant  to 
the  city  ordinances,  exhibiting  a  pli  ><\  the  d 

nation  of  the  several  lots  of  ground  in  front  of  which  said  paving 
has  been  done,  together  with  the  number  of  yards,  and  the 
proportion  thereof  chargeable  to  each  l"i  i  f  ground,  which  said 
book  and  plans  shall,  in  like  manner,  ho  preserved  as  public  records 
belonging  to  said  department,  a  I  be  open  to  th  ction 

of  all  persons  interested,  and  shall  he  transferred  (<>  ilie  custody 
of  the  city  Surveyor  for  the  time  being;  and  said  Surveyor  shall, 
at  the  request  of  any  individual,  furnish  certified  extracts  from 
said  hook,  upon  being  paid  by  the  person  applying  for  the  sa 

Articles  1  and  c,  obsolete. 

Art.  6.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  Surveyor  shall  point  out 
to  the  citizens  the  place  or  places  on  the  batture  from  whence  they 
may  take  batture,  sand  or  earth,  for  the  purpose  of  building-  or 
tilling-  up  lots  or  streets,  within  the  limits  of  this  city;  and  he 
shall  prescribe  the  manner  in  which  the  said  sand  or  earth  shall  he 
taken  off  the  batture,  also  the  quantity;  he  shall  also  give  a  permit 
in  writing-  to  all  proper  applicants  for  that  purpose. 

Art.  7.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  Surveyor  shall,  as  soon 
as  possible  after  entering  upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  ascertain 
the  relative  level  of  the  surface  of  the  city  nexi  to  the  river, 
compared  with  that  of  the  high  water  mark  of  the  Mississippi;  also, 
compared  with  the  level  of  the  water  in  the  Lake  Fontchartrain 
or  New  Canal,  at  its  ordinary  stage;  also,  the  surface  of  the  land 
between  the  New  Canal  and  the  river,  on  a  line  running  parallel  to 
the  streets,  leading  from  the  river  to  the  said  New  Canal,  and  shall 
make  profiles  of  the  same,  to  the  end  that  a  regular  and  proper  grade 
may  be  established  for  the  running  of  water  toward  the  said  canal; 
and  as  soon  as  the  grade  and  level  of  the  streets  is  established, 
he  shall  cause  to  be  placed  at  the  river  end  of  each  of  said 
streets,  a  permanent  stone  level  mark,  from  wdieuce  the  grade  of 
the  said  streets  may  be  commenced;  and  he  shall  enter  on  the 
records  of  his  office  the  relative  level,  and  fall  or  grade  of  each 
street. 


RESOLUTION  FIXING  THE  SURVEYOR'S  ClIARGIJS. 

Adopted   '.pril  21,  1847. 

Resolved,  That  from  and  after  the  passage  hereof,  the  compensation 
of  the  Surveyor,  for  giving  the  Hneation  of  lots  of  ground,  when 


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the  numbei    I       !  does  not  exceed  three  hundred  in  any  one  survey, 

shall  be   1|  cents  per  running  foot,  and  for  every  foot  exceeding- 
three  hundred  feet,  the  sum  of  $  of  a  cent  per  foot. 


IN  ORDINANCE  REQUIRING    CERTAIN    DUTIES  OF  THE   SURVEYOR. 

Adopted  November  19,  1845. 

Art.  1.  Ik  it  Ordained,  That  previously  to  making'  a  general 
plan  of  the  city,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Surveyor,  as  soon  as 
possible,  to  proceed  to  mark  the  line  of  Fourth  street  at  a  right 
angle  with  Canal  Avenue;  said  Canal  Avenue  to  be  located  by  the 
old  existing  boundaries,  or  first  surveys;  and  in  locating  Fourth 
street,  he  shall  likewise  be  governed  by  the  old  existing  boundaries 
or  first  surveys,  as  far  as  practicable;  he  shall  then  ascertain 
accurately  the  distance  on  Canal  Avenue  from  First  to  Fourth  street, 
to  the  end,  that  if  there  be  any  more  land  than  is  called  for  by  the 
■  veral  acts  of  sale,  and  the  width  of  the  streets,  the  same  may  be 
apportioned  by  the  Council  according  to  law;  he  shall  also  ascertain 
the  dimensions  on  the  lower  side  of  Fourth  street,  between  the 
lower  and  upper  line  of  the  city,  tracing  and  marking  the  said 
lower  and  upper  line  by  the  original  boundaries;  it  shall  be  his  duty 
also  to  ascertain  the  exact  measurement  between  Fourth  and  Levee 
streets  on  the  several  streets  running  from  the  river,  all  of  said 
streets  to  be  located  according  to  the  old  boundaries  or  first  surveys, 
where  they  exist,  and  where  they  do  not,  he  shall  be  governed  by 
the  dimensions  marked  on  the  original  plan  of  the  city.  The 
existing  buildings  and  fences  on  the  lower  side  of  Levee  street, 
where  they  occur  on  the  corners,  shall  be  the  points  from  which 
the  last  measurement  shall  be  taken,  in  order  that  the  Council  may 
fix  definitely  the  line  of  said  Levee  street;  he  shall  also,  with  the 
least  possible  delay,  prepare  a  plan  of  all  that  portion  of  the  city 
comprised  between  Fifth  street  and  the  river,  with  the  dimensions 
ascertained  as  above,  distinctly  marked  thereon,  and  shall  submit 
the  same  to  the  Council. 


RESOLUTION  CONCERNING  SURVEYOR'S  REPORT,  Sac  ' 

Adopted  September  2,  1X40. 

1.      I  ived.   That  tin;   plan  and  rep.uu  of  Surveyor,   made 

agreeably  to  the  ordinance  I  November  19,  1^45,  specifying 

•The  Surveyor's  report  here  alluded  to,  i-  in  r<  latton  1"  the  duties  required  by  the  preceding 


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•  particularly  the  duties  of  the  Surveyor,  be,  and  the  same  are 

hereby  adopted,  and  that  the  said  re;  eluded  in  the  minu: 

and  thai  the  recommendations  of  the  Surveyor   in   regard  to  the 

ition  of  th.'  Btreeta  and  the  disposition  of  the  surplus  land  found 

within  the  lines  "i  his  survey,  be,  and  the  same  are  ueroby  adopted, 

and  fixed  as  a  standard  for  all  future  surveys  in  this  city. 

-.  lie  it  further  Resolved.  Thai  the  Surveyor  be  and  he  is  hereby 
required  to  embody  the  Location  of  the  street  and  th''  disposition 
of  the  surplus  land  referred  to  in  the  foregoing  resolution,  in  the 
plan  of  this  city,  called  for  by  Article  5  of  th"  ordinance,  creating 
tin-  office  of  Surveyor,  &c,  adopted  August  •'>,  184i 


REPORT  ON  SURVEYS,  WITH  RESOLUTIONS. 

Ad  •  ptember  7.  1*49. 

The  Committee   on  Streets  and  Landings   beg  leave  to  report 

upon  the  surveys  of  Oarrollton  : 

1.  That  the  whole  history  of  the  surveys  of  the  town  shows  tiiat 
the  original  surveys  of  Zimpel,  laying  out  the  town,  were  exceed- 
ingly defective  and  inconsistent  with  the  dimensions  given  on  the 
map  by  which  the  town  was  laid  out  and  sold,  dated  April  16,  1S33. 

2.  That  the  locations  made  by  Zimpel  himself  at  that  time  and 
afterwards,  show  his   recognition  of  error  generally  excessive  in 

surement,  and  that  the  excess  which  saidZimpefs  surveys  gave 
in  certain  localities,  have,  in  a  large  majority  of  localities,  by  sub- 
sequent surveys  been  followed. 

3.  That  the  private  map  kept  by  Zimpel  himself,  of  his  surveys 
in  Oarrollton,  has  been  before  your  Committee,  and  that  said  map 
shows  the  excess  found  by  Zimpel  in  his  own  surveys  are  not  uni- 
form, but  the  squares  have  double  the  excess  above  Canal  Avenue, 
that  they  have  below  between  the  streets  parallel  to  the  avenue. 

'.  Thai  (rom  April  L6,  1833,  to  March  10,  1845,  a  period  of  12 
years,  the  surveys  of  the  town  have  been  made  by  a  number  of  sur- 
veyors, bavin  icert  with  each  other;  some  admitting,  and 
others  not,  an  excess  in  each  property;  that  after  the  incorpora- 
tion of  Oarrollton,  and  the  election  of  a  Surveyor,  who  alone 
should  make  future  surveys,  an  attempl  was  made  to  determine 
thee:.'  claimed  by  some,  and  denied  by  others,  to  exist;  that 
on  the  2d  day  of  September,  1846,  the  Council  adopted  a  report 
made  by  Heaton,  Surveyor,  based  on  certain  measurements  he  had 
mad'  i  nizing  an  excess  of  two  feet  in  every  double  square  of 
the  town  above  the  Avenue,  and  pro  rata  for  fractional  squares 
above  ('anal  .'■  mal  Avenue  this  excess  was  not  al. 

lutiona  were  repealed  July  26,  1848,  but  were  revived  by  resolution  September 

;.  '■  - 1  ■  ,  and  resolution  on  surveys. 


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lowed  unly  in  depth  toward  the    swamp,  while  no  excess  was  ad- 
mitted at  right  angles  to  the  avenue  below  it. 

5.  That  this  was  the  guide  of  the  Surveyor  up  to  July  26  1848 
when,  upon  a  report  of  Mithoff,  Surveyor,  the  Council  repealed  the 
ordinance  of  September  2,  1846,  and  adopted  another  in  lieu  there- 
of, denying  the  existence  of  any  excess,  and  requiring  the  surveyors 
to  make  locations  of  lots  and  streets  exactly  in  accordance  with  the 
written  lac  ■  of  the  plan  by  Zimpel,  of  April  16,  1833;  that  this  or- 
draance  was  acted  npon,  and  the  streets,  bridges,  -utters  and  ban- 
quettes as  well  as  lots  and  sqii  under  this  incum- 
bent, and  located  from  Canal  Avenue  as  a  basia  withoui  any  ex- 
cess; this  presents  the  utmost  confusion  of  locations,  and  has  already 
begun  to  produce  law  suits  and  contention  among  neighbors-  that 
from  the  resignation  of  Mithoff,  February  23,  1849,  to  the  3d  day 
of  May.  the  Surveyor,  Heaton,  made  his  locations  giving  an  excess 
though  contrary  to  the  existing  ordinance  known  as  Mithoff  with- 
out reviving  the  former  or  »f  1846;  and  thus  we  are  without 
any  other  guide  than  the  Surveyor's  option  in  the  location  of  prop- 
■    y'  Btreets  and  public  improvements; 

6.  That  the  public  dissatisfaction  is  such  as  to  justify  and  re- 
quire ot  the  Council  the  promptest  measures  of  settling  thoroughly 
the  controversies  as  to  surveys;  and,  in  the  opinion  of  this  cornmit- 
the  expense  will  be  cheerfully  borne  by  the  citizi 
«.  That,  believing,  as  your  committee  do  believe,  after  the 
maturest  reflection,  that  there  can  be  no  validity  given  to  any  sur- 
vey made  exparte  under  the  orders  of  the  Council,  and  that  the 
question  of  boundary  con  only  be  settled  by  a  judgment  of  court 
we  recommend  to  the  Council,  at  once  to  have  the  plan  adopted 
by  the  Council  on  the  2d  of  September,  1846,  laid  before  the  Dis- 
trict Oourt,  so  as  to  be  forever  free  from  future  disturbance.  In 
accordance  with  the  above  views,  the  committee  pi  Mow- 

ing resolution  : 

Be  if  Resolved,  That  the  -Mayor  he,  and  he  is  hereby  instructed  to 
jate  the  necessary  steps  to.  have  the  plan  of  surveys  adopted  on 
the  2d  of  September,  1846,  homologated  by  the  competent  authori- 
ty; and  that  in  the  meantime,  the  surveyor  be  and  he  is  hereby  re- 
quired to  make  all  surveys  hereafter  in  a  e  therewith. 

I  .  W.  MUNCASTEE 
B.  MASON, 
S.  X.  CANN< 


ORDINANCETO  provide  FOR  RECORDING  PRIVILEGES    LN] 

Adopt*  d  July  IT.  1860. 

Tl  L,  .fi  "' !'  aril  of  the  City  of  <  'arroUton 

Lnat  it  is  the  duty  of  the  At-  •    .,,,-,1  be  js  dereby 


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directed,  in  accordance  with   Section  IT  of  the  Act  to  incorporate 

the  <"ity  of  Carroll  ton,  to  cause  to  be  recorded  in  the  Mortgage  Of 
ficc  of  the  Parisli  of  Jefferson,  all  tax  bills  which  remain  unpaid  al 
the  end  of  the  delay  oi'  20  days,  for  answering  as  fixed  by  section 
10  of  said  act;  and  to  that  end  and  for  that  purpose,  it  is  hereby 
made  his  duty  to  prepare  a  list  showing  the  nami  debtors, 

the  amount  due  by  each,  the  year  for  which  it  is  due,  and  the  de- 
scription of  the  property,  as  found  on  the  bill,  on  which  the  tax 
is  due:  which  list  shall  be  made  and  signed  by  him  forthwith  after 
the  expiration  of  said  delay  of  20  days  and  filed  with  the  Recorder 
in  the  least  possible  delay,  in  be  entered  on  his  books  according  t" 
law.  The  Attorney  shall  take  judgments  by  default  against  all 
persons  who  have  not  answered,  and  then  stay  law  pjoceedings,  on 
all  unanswered  tax  suits  until  further  orders  of  the  Council,  in 
all  answered  suits  he  shall  proceed  according  to  law. 

2.  Be  it further  Ordained, Thixt  all  bills  for  paving  or  other  work 
done  OB  the  streets  and  sidewalks  and  for  which  the  front  owners 
are  liable  according  to  law,  ami  all  bills  for  work  lawfully  done  on 
private  property  and  for  which  the  owner  is  liable,  shall  be  record- 
ed in  the  Mortgage  Office  by  the  Collector  previous  to  being  put  in 
the  hands  <  if  the  Attorney  for  suit. 


TARGET    SHOOTING. 

AX  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  TARGET  SHOOTING. 

Adopted  July  29,  1846. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  all  target  shooting  be  and  is 
hereby  prohibited  within  the  limits  of  this  corporation,  under  a 
penalty  of  twenty  dollars  for  each  and  every  contravention  hereof, 
to  be  recovered  before  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction,  for  the 
use  of  the  city,  except  where  a  good  and  sufficient  protection  or 
shooting  alley  may  be  erected,  and  then  on  permission  of  the  Coun- 
cil only. 

Art.  2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  any  barricade,  or  protection, 
in  which  musket  or  rifle  target  shooting  may  be  permitted  by  the 
Council,  shall  be  made  as  follows:  The  bulkhead  shall  be  at 
least  fourteen  feet  high  and  twenty  feet  wide,  and  of  sufficient 
thickness  to  prevent  the  passage  of  balls;  the  sides  to  be  protected 
by  an  oak  plank  fence,  at  least  one  and  a  half  inches  thick  and 
nine  feet  high,  extended  from  the  bulkhead  to  within  ten  feet  of  the 
shooting  stand,  the  whole  to  be  well  and  securely  made,  and  to  be 
approved  of  by  the  Council,  before  permission  is  granted  for  target 
shooting  thereon. 


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TIMBER. 

AN  ORDINANCE  IMPOSING  A  TAX  ON  TIMBER  CUT  DT  ON  THEBAT- 
TURE,  Ac 

Adopted  April  1,  1846. 

Art.  1.     Be  it  Ordained,  Thai  from   and  after  the  promulgation 

of  this  ordinance,  all  rafts  now  lying  at  the  landing  in  front  of  the 
incorporated  limits  of  the  City  of  Carrollton,  and  all  that  shall  here- 
after be  landed  within  said  limits,  for  the  purpose  of  being  conver- 
ted into  cord  wood,  shingles,  pickets,  laths,  clapboards,  &c.,onthe 
batture  on  said  front,  shall  pay  a  tax  of  three  cents  pin-  tierfo/ 
each  and  every  tier  of  ash  or  other  timber  to  he  converted  into  cord 
wood,  and  fiN  for  each  and  every  tier  of  cypn       or  other 

timber  to  be  converted  into  lumber. * 

Art.  2.  Beit  further  Ordained,  That  all  persons  using  the  bat- 
ture for  the  purpose  of  selling  cord  wood,  shingles,  laths,  pickets, 
clapboards,  &c,  in  accordance  with  this  ordin:  II,  in  no  case, 

place  obstructions  at  the  terminations  of  the  streets  leading-  to  the 
river. 

Art.  3.  Be  ii  further  Ordained,  That  all  persons  bringing  and 
exposing  for  sale  on  the  batture  from  the  woods,  or  elsewhere,  cord 
wood,  shall  pay  three  cents  for  each  and  every  cord  so  exposed. 

Art.  4  repealed  June  13,  1860. 

Art.  5.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  hi-  tho  duty  of  the 
Commissary,  immediately  after  the  promulgation  of  this  ordinance, 
to  take  an  account  oi'  all  the  timber  and  other  objects  now  lying 
within  the  limits  of  the  front  of  the  city,  and  all  which  may  be 
hereafter  landed  within  the  said  limits  and  subject  to  the  opera- 
tion of  this  ordinance,  and  make  return  of  the  same  to  the  Comp- 
troller, whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  issue  a  receipt  for  the  amount 
of  the  tax  imposed  thereon,  which,  on  being  signed  by  the 
Commissary  and  countersigned  by  the  Comptroller,  shall  be  collec- 
ted by  said  Commissary,  and  paid  into  tho  treasury  within  ten  days 
from  the  issuing-  of  said  receipt. y 

Art.  6.  Beit  farther  Ordained,  That  any  person  or  persons  refus- 
ing to  pay  the  amount  of  tax  imposed  by  this  ordinance,  within  ten 
days  alter  demand,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  often  dollars  for  each 
every  contravention 


AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  RAFTS  01  TIMBER, LUMBER  AND  WOOD. 

Adopted  July  24,  1861. 

J .     Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Mayor  a  nd  don  nci!  of  the  City  of  Cai  r 
That  every  raft  of  timber,  lumber  or   wood  lying  at  the  landing  oi 

-.Ml  ,-ificr  ilir-  word  lumber  In  d"  original  ;irti<  le  l  wot  itrui  k  out  ai>'i  repealed  Julj 

tArtirio  5  was  repealed  by  the  operation  of  an  ordinani f  A] 'Hi  31  ,1862;  bn1  waa  re-tiutatof! 

anil  owndpil  February  '■'.  ISiSS. 


on  tlif  ba 

a  tax  of  five  dollars;   allrt  ing  shall 

:    ail 

rafts  :  of  five 

(•«■):  ;  aud  all  ! 

ild  at  the  lauding  shall  s  of  two 
Id,  and  I  very 
'.I  Bold :  pn>\ :                       :1c  shall  a  ap- 
ply to  Midi  timber  as  may  hav<  icle  1 
dinance  concerning  timbei                        •  battan 

i 
2    Beit  fur 

te  the  landing  ami  to  in- 

terfere with  hunts,  ami  it  is  hereby  made  Ins  duty  I  i  collect  the 
charges  imposed   by  ai  I  icl  •  l  ,  comptn 

t  timber  taxes,  from  th< 
of  the  raft,  lu'i  ->■  where  the  bill 

is  qoI  paid  withii  tall  place  it  in  the 

for  suit.     The  Commie  ■'!  be  re  i] 

e  for  and  ■  ]  i'i;1  •  -  :1  in 

tin-  premi  with  the  G    emis- 

sary iii  the  dif  f  bis  dui  >wn  in  this  ordinance,  ami 

ry  person  who  he  hill  a  I  within 

.    it   is    n  II  be   liable  I  •  n  fine  i  each 

■ 


Adopted  il  .  I.  1846. 

',    That  ii  luty  of  tln-Tiv 

of  this  city  to  i  and  other  evidences  of  debl 

due  this  corporation,  and  to  k<  ■•  I  of  the  same;  be 

lia.ll,  <>n   tlic  demand  * •  t'  the 
Comptroller,  exhibil  to  him  such  ad  documents  be- 

longing to  his  office,  as  he  ma;.  Droasurer  shall,  every 

three  months,  make  a   report   to   I  acil  of  the   amount 

moneys,  notes,  and  ob  .-  d  during 

that  time,  specifying  the   different    sources  of  revenue  from  which 
the  same  may  h;.-.  received,  stating  also   the  amounl   of 

■  in   dui  in  .   for  what   purpo  $c  oi 

ind  shall  dep  'fl  with  the  Comp- 

ler,  who  shall  cancel   and  file  them  in  his  the  Treasurer 

!      acil,  at   its  r<  gular  meetings,  a  -  uccint  I 
at  of  the  receipts  and  expenditures  since   its  last  regular 
.  showing  the  balance  on  hand  at  the  time;  uo  money  shall 
aid  by  the  Treasurer,  in  thorized  by  a  resolution  or  ordi 


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nance  of  the  Council,  drawn  for  by  the  President  of  the  Council, 
and  certified  by  the  Comptroller. 

Art.  2.  Be  it  furt/ier  Ordained,  That  the  Treasurer  shall  have 
full  power  to  institute  suits  in  the  name  of  the  corporation,  for  the 
recovery  of  all  sums  of  money  that  may  be  due  on  the  notes,  or 
other  evidences  of  debt  in  his  hands;  and  he  shall  be  held  respon- 
sible for  all  deficiencies  in  the  revenue  from  such  sources  from  de- 
lay in  prosecuting  for  the  same. 

Art.  3  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Treasurer,  on  the  payment  of  any  money  into  his  hands  from  any 
casual  source,  to  make  memorandum  of  the  same,  and  after  sign- 
ing it,  file  said  memorandum  forthwith  with  the  Comptroller.  * 


AN  ORDINANCE  COMBINING  TIIE  OFFICES  OF  TREASURER  AND  COL- 
LECTOR. 

Adopted  April  21,  1852. 

Art.  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  the  Treasurer  of  this  city,  in  ad- 
dition to  his  duties  as  such,  shall  perform  the  duties  of  Collector 
of  this  city,  agreeably  to  the  ordinance  concerning  the  office  of 
Collector,  and  shall  give  bond  according  to  the  ordinance  in  the 
joint  sum  of  that  required  for  each  separate  office."]"        . 

Art.  2.  Be  it  further  Ordained,  That  the  Treasurer  and  Collector 
shall  keep  his  office  open  and  attend  therein,!  for  the  receipt  and 
expenditure  of  the  funds  of  the  city,  and  shall  hold  his  books  ready 
for  the  inspection  of  any  committee  of  the  Council,  the  Mayor  and 
Comptroller. 


SUPPLEMENTAL  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  THE  TREASURER. 

Adopted  August  7,  1861. 

1 .  Be  it  urdaiited  by  t/ie  Mayor  a  nd  Council  of  the  City  of  Carrotttun, 
That  the  Treasurer  shall  keep  the  books  prescribed  and  in  the  form 
prescribed  by  the  Comptroller  and  the  chairman  of  the  Finance 
Committee  of  the  Council,  and  nil  books  kept  by  him,  including*  his 
check-book,  bank-book,  cash  bonk  and  all  returned  checks  and  war- 
rants and  evidences  of  claim  against  the  city,  paid  by  him,  and  all 
receipts  taken  by  him,  shall  be  at  all  times  subject  to  the  inspec 
tion  of  the  Mayor,  the  Comptroller  and  the  chairman  and  members 
of  the  Finance  Committee  of  the  Council.  He  shall  cancel  daily 
all  warrants  and  evidences  of  claim-  against  the  city  which  shall 

';  Artif  !<•  4  rap  Bled,  nil  tlr  l1  pari  Of  article  2  allowing  nttornry  ton  per  cent  nrnnml— Imi,  r„  . 
p<-dl<d  August  7, 1861.   v 

+The  amount  of  thro.-  thomand  dollars  «ru  Ikk-  addad;  bnt  thin  la  rapercaded  by  ilio  venrl» 
Mtion  of  tho  Council. 

{TheoflW  hour*  on- now  from  in  \    W.  to  3  P.M. 


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have  been  paid  by  turn,  and  shall  weekly  deposit  all  such  paid  war- 
rants and  evidences  of  claims  with  the  Comptroller,  to  be  entered 
to  the  credit  of  the.  Treasurer  and  hied  as  vouchers.  He  shall  bal- 
ance his  accounts  with  the  Comptroller  as  often  as  may  be  imposed 
on  him  by  tin;  Council.  He  shall  deposit  the  funds  of  the  city,  and 
open  and  keep  an  account  with  such  bank  as  the  council  may  direct, 


^\  QRDINAN)  i.  RE-ENACTING  CERTAIN  ORDINANI 

Adopted  August  21,  1861. 

Whereas,  A  new  compilation  and  digest  of  the  existing-  ordinances, 
resolutions  and  permanent  orders  of  the  City  of  Carrollton,  has 
been  made  by  C.  C.  Porter,  under  the  instruction  of  the  Mayor  and 
Council  of  Carrollton,  and  has  been  submitted  by  him  to  the  said 
Vfayor  and  Council  for  examination; 

And  Whereas,  The  said  Mayor  and  Council  have  enacted  certain 
amendments,  alterations  anil  repeals,  in  relation  to  divers  ordi- 
nances, resolutions  and  orders,  contained  in  said  compilation,  all 
which  amendments,  alterations  and  repeals  arc  duly  set  forth  in 
the  record  of  the  proceeding-s  of  said  Mayor  and  Council.  Now, 
therefore, 

Beit  Ordained,  That  the  aforesaid  compilation  and  digest  of  Or- 
dinances, Resolutions  and  Permanent  Orders,  as  revised,  altered 
and  amended  by  said  Mayor  and  Council,  be  and  is  hereby  ap- 
proved and  adopted  as  a  whole,  and  that  all  and  singular  'the  or- 
dinances, resolutions  and  orders  therein  contained,  be  and  the  same 
are  hereby  re-adopted  and  rc-affirmed;  and  further,  that  all  ordi- 
nances, resolutions  or  orders  or  parts  thereof,  that  may  be  in  con- 
flict therewith,  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed. 


AN  ORDINANCE  TO  GRANT  THE  RIGHT  OF  WAY  FOR  A  STREET  RAIL- 
ROAD ON  HAMPSON  STREET,  IN  THE  CITY  OF  CARROLLTON. 

Adopted  January  14,  1862. 

Article  1.  Be  it  Ordained,  That  the  right  of  way  and  privilege 
be  and  are  hereby  granted  to  Joseph  Kaiser  and  his  successors,  to 
lay  a  double-track  railroad  through  Hampson  street  from  Lower 
Line  Street  to  Dublin  street,  with  the  necessary  turn-outs,  switches 
and  turn-tables;  and  that  said  right  of  way  and  privilege  are 
grunted  on  the  following  terms  and  conditions: 

Art.  2.  The  said  railroad  shall  be  commenced  and  completed 
within  two  years  from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  Ordinance. 

Art.  3.  The  said  Joseph  Kaiser  shall  be  bound  to  cover  the 
slopes  of  the  road  on  both  sides  of  the  double-track  with  ballast 
or  shells  to  a  sufficient  depth  and  to  the  width  of  three  led,  and 
to  make  and  maintain  the  same  up  to  the  level  of  the  tracks'  and 
to  keep  the  same  in  good  order  for  the  travel  of  vehicles.  '  The 
spaces  between  the  tracks  and  within  the  rails  of  each  track  shall 
be  planked  and  made  in  the  same  manner  as  the  railroad  on  Maga- 
zine street,  between  Washington  and  Ninth  streets,  in  the  City  of 
New  Orleans.  Said  planking  to  be  kept  in  good  and  perfect  order 
for  the  travel  of  vehicles;  and  said  Kaiser  shall  also  be  bound  to 
construct  and  keep  in  good  order  all  the  bridges  necessary  across 
said  street  during  the  term  of  this  privilege;  the  City  of  Carrollton 
hereby  reserving  the  right  of  ordering  the  said  street,  or  any  por- 
tion thereof  to  be  paved;  and  in  such  case,  the  said  Kaiser  shall  be 
bound  to  pave  the  spaces  between  the  track  and  within  the  rails 
and  to  the  width  of  three  feet  on  each  side;  and  to  keep  and  main- 
tain such  pavement  in  good  order  and  repair  during  the  form  of 
his  privilege;  and  in  the  case  of  failure  on  the  part  of  said  Kai 
to  construct  said  road  and  bridges  and  keep  the  same  in  complete 
repair,  the  City  of  Carrollton  shall  have  the  right  to  cause  the 
same  to  be  constructed  and  repaired  at  the  expense  of  said  Kaiser 
the  cost  of  any  such  work  to  be  recoverable  before  any  courl  of 
competent  jurisdiction. 

Art.  4.  The  right  of  way  through  said  Hampson  Btreei  being 
granted  for  the  continuation  of  the  Prytania  and  Magasine  street 
lines  of  railroads  through  the  City  of  Jefferson,  connected  by  rail- 
roads the  right  of  way  for  which  was  granted  by  the  Police  Jury 
Left  Bank,  of  the  Parish  of  Jefferson,  by  Ordinance  passed  Decem- 
ber 2,  1861,  the  said  Kaiser  shall  not  use,  nor  allow  to  bo  used 
the  railroads  on  said  streets  for  any  other  line  of  nods  than  llic^e 
herein  mentioned. 

Art.  ,f>.     The   said  railroad  shall  be  laid  in  the  middle  of  the 
street,  and  shall  be  constructed  with  the  same  pattern  of  rails  and 
with  the .same  guage  as  the  street  Railroads  heretofore  construcl 
in  the  City  of  New  Orleans;  all  materials  used  in  the  construction' 
nd  road  shall  beof  the  bes1  qualify, and  the ti  '  belaid 


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in  accordance  with  lines  and  levels  given  by  the  Surveyor  of  the 
City  of  Carrollton,  at  the  expense  of  said  Kaiser.  But  the  plan  or 
mode  of  construction  and  the  specifications  therefor,  may  be  such 
as  said  Kaiser  may  adopt,  provided  the  same  be  in  accordance 
with  the  best  customs,  and  approved  by  the  Surveyor  and  the 
Council. 

Art.  6.  The  cars  used  on  said  railroad  shall  be  of  the  same 
style  of  construction  as  those  used  on  the  Street  Railroads  of  New 
Orleans,  and  shall  be  drawn  only  by  horses  or  mules.  They  shall 
be  run  at  intervals  of  not  more  than  thirty  minutes  from  5  o'clock 
A.  M.,  to  10  o'clock,  P.  M.,  and  not  more  than  30  minutes  from  10 
o'clock,  P.  M.,  Vo  12  o'clock,  at  night  All  Cars  running  between 
sundown  and  daylight  shall  be  furnished  with  head  and  rear  lights 
of  ample  size,  and  set  in  conspicuous  places;  and  for  any  violation 
by  the  said  Kaiser,  or  his  successors,  or  by  the  officers  or  employ- 
ees of  said  road,  of  this  rule,  or  any  other  rule  contained  in  this 
Ordinance  or  in  any  other  Ordinance  hereafter  enacted,  said  Kaiser 
or  his  successors  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  from  ten  dollars  ($10) 
to  twenty-five  dollars  ($25)  for  each  offence,  recoverable  before 
any  competent  court,  for  the  benefit  of  the  City  of  Carrollton. 

Art.  7.  The  fare  on  said  railroad,  between  Dublin  Street,  in  this 
City,  and  Joseph  Street  shall  not  exceed  five  (5)  cents  per  passen- 
ger either  way,  for  the  first  ten  years;  after  the  expiration  of  which 
time  tickets  in  packages  of  ten  shall  be  issued  to  persons  demand- 
ing them,  at  the  rate  of  three  cents  per  ticket. 

Art.  8.  The  said  Kaiser  shall  furnish  good  and  solvent  security 
in  the  sum  of  seven  thousand  dollars  for  commencement  and  com- 
pletion of  said  road,  and  for  the  faithful  observance  of  all  the  rules 
and  conditions  contained  in  this  Ordinance. 

Art.  9.  This  privilege  is  granted  to  said  Kaiser  for  the  term  of 
twenty-five  years,  but  with  the  understanding  that  it  shall  expire 
on  the  same  day  with  the  privilege  adjudicated  to  him  by  the  City 
of  Jefferson,  and  granted  to  him  by  the  Police  Jury  of  the  Parish 
of  Jefferson,  Left  Bank,  each  within  its  own  limits. 

Art.  10.  At  the  expiration  of  the  aforesaid  term,  the  said  rail- 
road tracks  shall  pass  to  the  ownership  and  possession  of  the  City 
of  Carrollton,  upon  an  appraisement  made  thereon  by  three  compe- 
tent and  disinterested  persons,  one  to  be  chosen  by  said  Kaiser  or 
his  successors,  one  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  Carrollton,  and 
the  third  by  the  other  two;  but  in  case  of  disagreement  by  those 
two  in  the  choice  of  the  third,  then  cither  or  both  of  the  first  two 
shall  notify  the  district  judge  presiding  in  the  Parish  of  Jefferson, 
who  shall  appoint  the  third.  The  appraisement  shall  be  based 
upon  the  actual  value  of  the  materials  and  labor  existing  in  the 
tracks,  and  the  amount  of  the  appraisement  shall  be  paid  to  said 
Kaiser  by  the  City  of  Carrollton  in  equal  installments,  in  one,  two 
and  three  years,  with  interest  at  six  per  cent,  per  annum. 

Art.  11.     In  case  of  the  failure  of  said  Kaiser  either  to  com- 


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mence  or  complete  said  railroad  within  the  period  herein  prescribed 
the  Council  shall  have  the  right  to  annul  the  contract  and  privilege 
herein  granted,  without  putting  said  Kaiser  or  his  successors'"., 
default  in  the  manner  indicated  in  article  1,905  of  the  Civil  Code 
and  without  applying  to  a  Court  of  Justice  to  annul  the  same  and 
without  indemnity;  and  in  case  said  Kaiser  shall  at  any  time  aban- 
don said  work,  or  fail  or  refuse  to  furnish  and  complete  the  sara" 
in  conformity  with  this  Ordinance  and  his  contract,  he  shall  forfeit 
all  claim  for  indemnity  for  the  work  done  bvhim  up  to  the  date  of 
abandonment,  and  the  City  of  Carrollto^  shall  be  discharged  from 

nnv  nnrl   nil   linliilifir  +1-./-,..,-.^.. 


any  and  all  liability  therefor. 


Adopted  January  22,  1862. 
Resolved,  That  the  Streets  and  Landings  Committee  be  and  are 
hereby   empowered  to  direct  the  Commissary  to    open    ditches 
and  build  bridges  when  and  where,  in  their  opinion,  it  is  necessary 


AX  ORDINANCE  TO  AMEND  THE  ORDINANCE  FIXING  THE  PRICES  OF 

LICENSES. 

Adopted  February  5,  1862. 
rBeit  Ordained  by  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  the  City  of  Carroll! on 
That  Section  28  in  Article  1  of  "An  Ordinance  to  establish  a  uni- 
form rate  of  Licenses  on  Professions,  Callings  and  other  business, 
and  on  public  and  private  vehicles,"  adopted  December  11,  18fil,' 
be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  so  as  to  read  : 
Sec.  28.     Every  keeper  of  a  Dairy  shall  pay  $20. 


Adopted  February  19,  1862. 
Be  it  Ordained,  That  the  Council  may,  in  their  discretion,  order 
paved  walks  to  be  constructed  in  the  middle  of  the  banquettes'of  any 
street,  in  lieu  of  paving  the  entire  width  of  the  banquette,  and  In 
such  case  said  paved  walks  shall  be  no.t  less  than  three  feet  wide, 
and  shall  be  laid  not  less  than  three  feet  from  the  line  of  the 
ditches  or  gutters,  and  shall,  in  other  respects,  be  constructed  in 
accordance  with  the  first,  second  and  third  articles  of  the  ordi- 
nance concerning  the  construction  of  banquettes,  adopted  October 
3d,  1849. 


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Jfo  2  -AN   -ACT 

To  amend  an  act  entitled  an  act  to  in 
corporate     the   city   of   Carrollton 
approved  March  17,  1859,  and   a< 
supplementary  thereto. 
Section  1.  Be    it    enacted    by    tin 
Senate  and  House  of  Representatives 
of  the  State  of  Louisiana   in    G-eneral 
Assembly   convened.     That    the  hist 
Bection    of     an  act    entitled    an    act 
to  incorporate  fnfc  city   of  Carrolltor 
be  and  the  same  is    hereby   amended 
ho  as  to  read  : 

"Section  1.  Be    it   enacted    by  tin 
Senate  and  House  of  Representative  oi 
the  State  of  Louisiana  in  General   As- 
sembly convened.     That  the  territory 
and  inhabitants  within   the   following 
limits,  to  wit :  Beginning  at  the  Mis 
sissippi  river,    on  the   present    uppe] 
line  of  the  city  of  New  Orleans,   of  tin 
lower  line  of  "Lowerline  street,  of  Car- 
rollton,. following  tin   u}  p«  r  line  of  th< 
city  of   New  Orleans  to    the   northeri 
limit  of  the  parish  of  Jefferson,  ai  <!  fch 
boundry  of  said  parish,  with  tin  pari! 
and  city  of  Mew   Orleans,    to  the    la 
bane  road,  thence  along  the  centre   •  . 
said  road  to  the  J*  ississippi  river,  them  c 
f  olio  wing -4he  river  bank  to    the    place 
of  beginning,  shall  be  a  corporate  and 
body  politie,  with  perpetual  succession, 
by  the  name  of  the  City  of  Carrollton." 
Sec  2.  Be   it   enacted,    etc.,     That 
section  five  of  said  act  be  and  the  stone 
is  so  amended  and    re-enacted,    as  to 
read  : 

Sec.  5.  Be  it  further   enacted,   etc., 
That  the  said  Mayor  and  Council,  when 
duly  organized,  are  empowered  to  or- 
dain, establish  and  cause  to  be  carried 
into  effect  and  execution  all  such   by- 
laws, ordinances,  resolutions,  rules  and 
regulations  as  they  may  deem  expedient 
for  the  good  government  of  said    cor- 
poration which  are  not  contrary  to  the 
constitution  of  the  State  or  the  United 
States.     They     are    empowered    and 
authorized  to   levy  and  collect  taxes 
and  charges  in  such   manner  as   they 
may  deem  expedient  on  all  steamboats, 
ships,  flatboat,  rafts,  and  watercraft  oi 
every  description  landing  at  the  levee, 
batture  or  wharves  in  front  of  said  city ; 
also  upon   all    carriages,    omnibuses,  c 
carts,  drays,  wagons,  timber  wheel  and 
every  other  vehicle  of  whatsoever  kind 
within  said  city.     They  are  authorized 
and  empowered  to  lay  and   collect  an 
annual  tax  upon  all  kinds  of  property, 
real  or  personal,and  upon  stores,trades, 


as  they  may  deem  expeclient";pro 
that  in  the  imposition,  assessment  an  " 
collection  of  any  of  the  said   taxes  o, 
charges  equality  shall  be  observed,  ant 
that  the  imposition  thereof  is  not  con- 
11    trary  to  law;   and   provided   further, 
;  a    majority    of   all   the   member! 
composing  the    Mayor    and    Council 
» ■.(  ,i  i  cur  therein:     They  are  empowered 
to  pass  ordinances  for  the   abatemerdj 
of  nuisances  and  the  arrest  of  offenders? 
and  to  dispose  of  vagrants.     The  pi 
sent  Mayor  and  Council  are  authorize^ 
and  empowered  to  fund  the  outstand- 
ing debis'and  obligations   of  the   said 
city    of   Carrollton,    created    for   the 
wharves,  streets,    gas    and    other    im- 
provements   of   said    city,    by  issuing 
bonds  of  said  city  in  such  sums  as  said 
Council  may  deem  advisable,    running 
for  thirty  years,  with  interest  at  eight 
per  cent,  payable  semi-annnally  ;  pro- 
vided, that  any  ordinance  porvidingfor 
the  issuance  of  bonds   shall  provide   for 
die  payment   of  the  principal  and  in- 
terests'oi  such  bonds,  by  levying  such 
..ni.ual  tax  as  will  provide  a     sufficient 
sumto  pay  the  interest   of  said  bonjjjs 
as  the  same  may  come   due,   and  pro 
Meed  a  sufficient  sinning  fund  to  meet 
.tin    principal    at    maturity  ;  and    pro- 
pitied  further,    that    the    Mayor  shall 
Loive  the  power  to  veto  any  ordinance 
or  lesoluuon,  or    any    specific    appro- 
priation not  required  by  the  law  of  the 
.  tare,  by  giving  in  writing  at  or  before 
.    e  lirst  regular  meeting  of  the  (  oun- 
cil  [hereafter,  Ins   reason    against    me 
me,  otherwise  he    shad    sign    all  oft 
uinances  and  resolution  pi       ■    in  du«J 
o.im     by      the    Council;    and      such 
.nance-  and  re;  olution  shalhthere- 
:,.    have  the  force  of  iaw  :    and  jsix 
members]   members   of   the    Council 
volmg.ior  any  vetoed   ordinance,   r< 
joiution    or   appropriation    shall  pasa 
the  same,  the   objection  of  the   Mavot 
notwithstanding. 

Sec  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  etc., 
That  section  ten  of  said  act  be  and  tin 
same  is  amended  and  re-enacted  so  as 
to  read : 

"Sec.  10.  Beit  i'urther  enacted,  etc. 
That  the  roads,  st  rets,  We<  s,  wharves 
and  public  places  and  thorougbfai  es  in 
said  city  shall  be  under  the  entire 
•ontrol  of  said,  Mayor  and  Council,  ami 
they  may  and  shall  pass  such  la\  *>  and 
ordinances  for  the  regulation  thereof 
as  they  may  deem  expedient :  pro- 
vided, that  no  ordinances  in  relation 
to  those  places  or  the  levees  shall  in- 
terfere with   the  rights  of   the  public 


thereto,  as  laid  down  in  the  Civil  Code 
and  laws  of  this  State.  They  arehere- 
by  vested  wiih  the  power  to  repair, 
alter  or  enlarge  said  levees,  and.  il 
<  ssary  for  the  safety  of  the  inhabit- 
ants, to  make  a  new  levee  in  front  of 
any  part  of  said  city,  in  such  places  and 
manner  as  the  exigency  of  the  case,  in 
their  discretion,  may  require,  and  two- 
thirds  of  the  said  Mayor  and  Council 
concurring,  are  empowered  to  levy  and 
collect  a  Bpecial  fox  on  the  Real  Estah 
and  persona]  property  in  said  city  to 
pay  all  expenses  and  costs  arising 
therefrom.  They  are  empowered  to 
curb,  gutter,  grade,  pave,  shell  or  plank 
sidewalks,  streets  and  public  thorough- 
i'ares,a])dThar-ethe  front,  owners  on 
snch  places  the  one-half  cost  for  side- 
walks including  curbs  and  gutters,  and 
one-hall  qfthe  whole  costs  for  streets 
except  crossing;  and  to  pay  fortheoW 
third  of  the  whole  costs  fox  streets,  and  • 
the  crossings  and  corners.  They  are 
■uthonzed   and   empowered   to   issue 

I  improvement  bonds,  running  for  ten 
twenty  or  thirty  years,  bearingunterest 
atnot  exceeding  eight  per  cent  per 
annum  ;  provided,  that  all  improve- 
ment of  struts  shall  be  done  under 
contract,  upon  terms  to  be  made  bythe 
said  Mayor  and  Council:  and  said 
flavor  ami  Council  are  empowered  to 
make  wharves,  plant  tie-post,  and 
regulate  the  port  of  said  city,  and  also 
to  cause  vacant  Jots  to  he  fenced  and 
failed  up  to  the  grade  of  the  city,  at  the 
expenses  of  the  owners  AvhoYi  necessary." 
Sec  4.  Be  it  further  enacted,  etc., 
,,';it  ^e  pesent  Mayor  and  members 
l!  ""  Council  shall  serve  the  term  for 
^uch  they  weivt  o  respectively ;  elect- 


The  above  amended  Charter  wag 
ed  at  the  office  of  the  Secretary, 
of  State,  on  the  12th  of  February,  1872, 
md  it  having  been  presented  to  the 
[governor  of  the  State  for  his  approval, 
and  not  having  been  returned  by  him 
to  the  House  of  the  Gem  ral  Astembly 
in  which  it  originated  within  the  time 
prescribed ^y  the  constitution  of  the 
State1  of  Louisiana,  has  become  a  law 
without  his  approval. 


*ttd  provided  further,  that  anyvacan- 
eycausecl^y  death,  resignation,  or  other 
wise  the  Governor  shall  have  full 
lower  I o  till  said  vacancy  for  the  un- 
expired ten,,  of  said  office. 

S&ned)        O.  H.  BKEWSTER 
Speaker  of  the  House  of  Kopresenta- 

(S^ed)     P.  n.s.  PINCHBACK. 
Lieutenant    Governor   and   President 

>I  the  Senate. 

A  true  copy  : 

b.   J.    Hebron, 
Secret: 


AN  ACT  No.  28 

To  amend  an  act  entitled  an  act  to  incorpo- 
rate the  city  of  Carrollton,  approved  March 
17,  1859,  and  acts  supplementary  thereto. 
Suction  1.  Be  it  resolved  bj  the  Seuate 
|  and  House  of  Jtcprosentafives  of  Hie  State 
ofLonisiana  in  (General  Assembly  convened, 
['hat  in  addition  to  the  duties  already  ioi 
posed  upon  the  mayor  ofthe  citv  of  Carroll- 
ton. the  .said  mayor  shall  be  ox-offlcin  justice 
ofthe  ptiace,and  vested  with  the  same  power*, 
duties  and  jurisdiction  as  shall  l><>  a  ,. 
atof  of  the  peace,  and  shall  i  scrciseaud  per- 
forui  all  the  duties  of  committing  magistrate 
in  and  for  the  city  of  Carrollton,  and  impose 
all  penalties  for  violation  of  the  city  ordin- 
ances of  said  city  of  Carrollton,  the  same  as 
are  now  vested  in  recorders  ofthe  i 
New  Oilcans.  He  shall  receive  a Kalarybi  b\v« 
thouaaud  dollars  per  annum,  payable  niouthlj 
on  his  own  warrant,  in  lien  of  tics  i,,  criminal 
eases  as  commit  Ling  magi^wte,  and  no  foe* 
shall  be  allow.,!  in  criminal  proceedings  1.. 
committing  magistrate  iu«aid  city  of  Carroll- 
ton. 

Sec.    3.    Beit  further ena  .   rhai 

the  mayor  shall,  subject  to  the  approval  of 
the  Council  of  said  city  of  (anollton,  ap- 
point one  clerk  ofthe  court  tor  the  term  of 
the  oiliee  of  said  mayor,  as  specified  in  section 
three  ofthisact,  whoshall  give  bond,  as  the 
Council  may  determine,  tor  the  faithful 
formanee  of  his  duties.  The  salary  of  said 
elerk  shall  be  eighteen  hundred  dollars  per 
annum,  payable  by  said  city  of  Carrollton 
monthly,  on  his  own  warrant. .  Ele  shall  keep 
proceedings  of  all  the  business  of  said 
court,  and  a  record  of  all  criminal  proceed- 
ings as  required  by  law,  andin  bookaprovided 
by  the  city  Council  for  that  purpose.  He 
shad  make  weekly  report  of  all  fines  imposed 
and  collected,  and  forfeiture  of  all  bonds  in 
ciiminal  proceedings.  And  all  money  re- 
ceived shall  be  paid  over  by  the  mayor  of 
said  city  to  the  city  treasurer  each  and  even 
week  on  snch  day  as  the  Council  may  deter 
nun.-.  The  mayor  of  the  city  hhal  keep  his 
office  and  hold  his  court  in  snch  place 
shall  be  provided  by  the  City  Council  ofthe 
city  of  Carrollton.  Anditshall  be  thedutv 
of  an  officer  of  the  Metropolitan  force  to 
attend  upon  the  court  during  the  examination 

•  d'all  cases  and  i<>  preserve  order  therein. 
All  arrests  by  tie-  police  in  said  city  of  Carroll- 
ton shall  be  reported  to  the  mayor.  All 
warrants  for  arrests  issued  by  the  mayor  of 
said  city  in  criminal  cases,  for  violation  of 
city  ordinances,  and  all  writs,  subpoenas  for 
witnesses,  notices  of  trials,  etc,:  in  all  casps 
shall  be  executed  j>ml  .served  bythe  police  of 
said    city. 


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